About the Author

Kristina Wirtz is associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria.

Reviews

"Performing Afro-Cuba is a remarkable achievement. To put Wirtz's argument in a nutshell would be to do a gross injustice to her sophisticated-and often quite elegant-exposition. She is simply the smartest and theoretically most sophisticated anthropologist doing research in Cuba these days. But aside from her contribution to the regionalist literature, the real value of her work is that it speaks to enduring anthropological questions, while raising a number of new ones that are relevant far beyond her specific field site. I enthusiastically recommend it." (Stephan Palmie, author of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion)"