Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition DEVELOPMENT STUDEIS What he craves could be

What he craves could be his downfall

Omar's most feared adversary

The reader

and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love—and a lot of what they fear—through a twisted blend of horror lenses

Grief is his only connection to the wife and son he lost

Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition DEVELOPMENT STUDEIS What he craves could beIn Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmi offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmi argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from