Stephan Palmié

(D.Phil, U Munich 1989; Habilitation, U Munich 1999) Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, conducts ethnographic and historical research on Afro-Caribbean cultures, with an emphasis on Afro-Cuban religious formations and their relations to the history and cultures of a wider Atlantic world. . His other interests include practices of historical representation and knowledge production, systems of slavery and unfree labor, constructions of race and ethnicity, conceptions of embodiment and moral personhood, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of food and cuisine.
email: palmie@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications:

1993 Conceptualizing Cultural Flow: Perspectives on Globalization. In R. Kroes, et al., eds. Cultural Transmissions and Receptions. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 271-301.

1993 Ethnogenetic Processes and Cultural Transfer in Caribbean Slave Populations. In W. Binder, ed., Slavery in the Americas. Würzburg: Königshauser & Neumann, pp. 337-364.

1995 Against Syncretism: Africanizing and Cubanizing Discourses in North American Òrìsà-Worship. In R. Fardon, ed., Counterworks: Managing Diverse Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 73-104.

1995 The Taste for Human Commodities: Experiencing the Atlantic System. In S. Palmié, ed., Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Knoxville: U Tennessee Press, pp. 40-54.

1996 Which Center, Whose Margin? Notes Towards an Archaeology of U.S. Supreme Court Case 91-948, 1993. In O. Harris, ed., Inside and Outside the Law. London: Routledge, pp. 184-209.

1998 Conventionalization, Distortion and Plagiarism in the Historiography of Afro-Caribbean Religion in New Orleans. In W. Binder, ed., Creoles and Cajuns. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 315-344.

1998 "Fernando Ortiz and the Cooking of History" Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 24, pp. 353-373.

2001 Of Pharisees and Snark Hunters: Afro-Cuban Religions as an Object of Knowledge. Culture andReligion. 2:3-19.

2002 Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Duke U Press.

2002 The Color of the Gods: Notes on a Question Better Left Unasked. In B. Ostendorf, ed. Transnational America. Heidelberg: C. Winter, pp. 163-175.

2004 Fascinans or Tremendum? Permutations of the State, the Body, and the Divine in Late-Twentieth Century Havana . New West Indian Guide 78:229-268.

2005 The Cultural Work of Yoruba-Globalization. In T. Falola, ed., Christianity and Social Change in Africa . Essays in Honor of John Peel. Chapel Hill : Carolina Academic Press, 43-81.

2005 Santería Grand Slam: Afro-Cuban Religious Studies and the Study of Afro-Cuban Religion. New West Indian Guide. 79, 281-300.

2005 Ackee and Saltfish vs. Amalá con Quimbombó?: Sidney Mintz' Contribution to the Historical Anthropology of African American Cultures. Journal de la Société des Américanistes . 91(2): 89-122.

2006 Creolizaton and its Discontents. Annual Reviews in Anthropology. 35: 433-56.

2006 The View from Itía Ororó Kande. Social Anthropology. 14: 99-118.

2006 Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of ‘Objectively Necessary Appearances'. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 48: 852-86

2007 Genomics, Divination, “Racecraft”. American Ethnologist. 34: 203-220.

2007  Rejoinder: Genomic Moonliighting, Jewish Cyborgs, and Peircian Abduction. American Ethnologist. 34: 243-249.

2007  Is there a Model in the Muddle? 'Creolization' in African American History and Anthropology. In C. Stewart, ed., Creolization and Diaspora: Historical, Ethnogrpahic, and Theorietical Perspectives. Walnut Creek: Left Shore Press, 178-200.

2007  On the C-Word, Again: From Colonial to Postcolonial Semantics.  In C. Stewart, ed., Creolization and Diaspora: Historical, Ethnographic, and Theoretical Perspectives. Walnut Creek: Left Shore Press, 66-83.

2007  Ecué's Atlantic: An Essay in Method.  Journal of Religion in Africa. 37(2).

n.d. Ekpe/Abakuá in Middle Passage: Time, Space, and Units of Analysis in African American Historical Anthropology. In A. Apter & L. Derby (eds.) Activating the Past: Historical Memory in the Black Atlantic. London: Cambridge Scholars Press (forthcoming).

n.d.  Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memorialization.  In S. Radstone & B. Schwartz, eds., Remapping Memory. Fordham University Press (forthcoming).