{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2894841877","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","title":"When Is a Thing? Transduction and Immediacy in Afro-Cuban Ritual; or, ANT in Matanzas, Cuba, Summer of 1948","display_name":"When Is a Thing? Transduction and Immediacy in Afro-Cuban Ritual; or, ANT in Matanzas, Cuba, Summer of 1948","publication_year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-10-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2894841877","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","mag":"2894841877"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0010417518000294","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S21304105","display_name":"Comparative Studies in Society and History","issn_l":"0010-4175","issn":["0010-4175","1475-2999"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Comparative Studies in Society and History","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5054678987","display_name":"Stephan Palmi\u00e9","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7820-3199","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7820-3199"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I40347166","display_name":"University of Chicago","ror":"https://ror.org/024mw5h28","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I40347166"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Stephan Palmi\u00e9","raw_affiliation_strings":["Anthropology, University of Chicago"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Anthropology, University of Chicago","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I40347166"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5054678987"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I40347166"],"apc_list":{"value":3550,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3550},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":3.2402,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":18,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93244735,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":87,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"60","issue":"4","first_page":"786","last_page":"809"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10149","display_name":"Anthropological Studies and Insights","score":0.5985999703407288,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10149","display_name":"Anthropological Studies and Insights","score":0.5985999703407288,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10738","display_name":"Posthumanist Ethics and Activism","score":0.3488999903202057,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3316","display_name":"Cultural Studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13860","display_name":"Arts and Performance Studies","score":0.009499999694526196,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jovellanos","display_name":"Jovellanos","score":0.8050000071525574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/matanzas","display_name":"Matanzas","score":0.7170000076293945},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/actor-network-theory","display_name":"actor-network theory","score":0.800000011920929},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/transduction","display_name":"transduction","score":0.6420000195503235},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/immediacy","display_name":"immediacy","score":0.9350000023841858},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ontological-turn","display_name":"ontological turn","score":0.6570000052452087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/radical-alterity","display_name":"radical alterity","score":0.906000018119812},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/karen-barad","display_name":"Karen Barad","score":0.8960000276565552},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/agential-realism","display_name":"agential realism","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/anti-representationalism","display_name":"anti-representationalism","score":0.9179999828338623},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/posthumanism","display_name":"posthumanism","score":0.8299999833106995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/anthropology-of-knowledge","display_name":"anthropology of knowledge","score":0.4440000057220459},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/epistemic-orientation","display_name":"epistemic orientation","score":0.574999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/historical-ontology","display_name":"historical ontology","score":0.46399998664855957}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.6526944637298584},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.5687891840934753},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780340563","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2811064","display_name":"Immediacy","level":2,"score":0.5346590280532837},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C179454799","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132151","display_name":"Ethnography","level":2,"score":0.447611927986145},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C99377836","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1661162","display_name":"Indexicality","level":2,"score":0.41095873713493347},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19165224","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23404","display_name":"Anthropology","level":1,"score":0.398311585187912},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.36829674243927},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.3193620443344116}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0010417518000294","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417518000294","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S21304105","display_name":"Comparative Studies in Society and History","issn_l":"0010-4175","issn":["0010-4175","1475-2999"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Comparative Studies in Society and History","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":83,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W17124525","https://openalex.org/W98309190","https://openalex.org/W276066963","https://openalex.org/W605287365","https://openalex.org/W609060031","https://openalex.org/W618643828","https://openalex.org/W654168081","https://openalex.org/W657514096","https://openalex.org/W1501016751","https://openalex.org/W1505038837","https://openalex.org/W1505563434","https://openalex.org/W1525609378","https://openalex.org/W1565110470","https://openalex.org/W1565224157","https://openalex.org/W1574115731","https://openalex.org/W1578807507","https://openalex.org/W1580384874","https://openalex.org/W1600850371","https://openalex.org/W1759514309","https://openalex.org/W1782524615","https://openalex.org/W1901599806","https://openalex.org/W1903069039","https://openalex.org/W1973051082","https://openalex.org/W1979458764","https://openalex.org/W1979907492","https://openalex.org/W1982993664","https://openalex.org/W1991899414","https://openalex.org/W1994145679","https://openalex.org/W2004688718","https://openalex.org/W2025083083","https://openalex.org/W2026947915","https://openalex.org/W2042813863","https://openalex.org/W2050994734","https://openalex.org/W2057758151","https://openalex.org/W2083966753","https://openalex.org/W2087157995","https://openalex.org/W2088366063","https://openalex.org/W2103272780","https://openalex.org/W2111165393","https://openalex.org/W2121230451","https://openalex.org/W2127034844","https://openalex.org/W2131773912","https://openalex.org/W2139332287","https://openalex.org/W2141387829","https://openalex.org/W2147533090","https://openalex.org/W2148223341","https://openalex.org/W2167757977","https://openalex.org/W2172312281","https://openalex.org/W2178207416","https://openalex.org/W2261371562","https://openalex.org/W2278250868","https://openalex.org/W2319674812","https://openalex.org/W2321640267","https://openalex.org/W2326221560","https://openalex.org/W2327390630","https://openalex.org/W2327734049","https://openalex.org/W2328570642","https://openalex.org/W2399257066","https://openalex.org/W2486250192","https://openalex.org/W2504597936","https://openalex.org/W2515112821","https://openalex.org/W2522339554","https://openalex.org/W2593185645","https://openalex.org/W2603240216","https://openalex.org/W2764357991","https://openalex.org/W2798592727","https://openalex.org/W2884005466","https://openalex.org/W2894695975","https://openalex.org/W2963478991","https://openalex.org/W3044283969","https://openalex.org/W3129983190","https://openalex.org/W3152129486","https://openalex.org/W4230780916","https://openalex.org/W4234779487","https://openalex.org/W4235238836","https://openalex.org/W4236353073","https://openalex.org/W4239287321","https://openalex.org/W4243761327","https://openalex.org/W4245525750","https://openalex.org/W4247553309","https://openalex.org/W4251939297","https://openalex.org/W4253559680","https://openalex.org/W4400001022"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2606255334","https://openalex.org/W1600850371","https://openalex.org/W2802825725","https://openalex.org/W1580784406","https://openalex.org/W1531831064","https://openalex.org/W2786813013","https://openalex.org/W7071033438","https://openalex.org/W2070329019","https://openalex.org/W7014483883","https://openalex.org/W6959845889"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"Revisiting":[1],"William":[2],"R.":[3],"Bascom's":[4,44],"1948":[5],"ethnography":[6],"of":[7,19,23,43,48,67,88,99,107,125,143,149,161,170,175,185,195,212,214,218],"Afro-Cuban":[8],"religious":[9],"practices":[10],"in":[11,16,21,27,46,153,199,210],"Jovellanos":[12],"(a":[13],"semi-urban":[14],"site":[15],"Cuba's":[17],"Province":[18],"Matanzas)":[20],"light":[22,160],"current":[24,89],"theoretical":[25],"concerns":[26,132],"our":[28,93,144],"discipline,":[29],"this":[30],"essay":[31,165],"constitutes":[32],"a":[33,86,141,168,173],"thought":[34],"experiment.":[35],"As":[36],"such":[37,162],"it":[38,189,205],"seeks":[39],"to":[40,51,91,105,137,180,191],"re-describe":[41],"some":[42],"data":[45],"terms":[47,211],"Actor-Network":[49],"Theory,":[50],"see":[52],"if":[53],"his":[54,58],"patent":[55],"puzzlement":[56],"over":[57],"interlocutors\u2019":[59],"statements":[60],"concerning":[61],"the":[62,81,97,164,182,186,196],"liveliness":[63],"and":[64,116,216],"even":[65],"personhood":[66],"mineral":[68],"objects\u2014stones":[69],"that":[70,78,103,110,130,177],"embody,":[71],"rather":[72],"than":[73],"represent":[74],"deities\u2014can":[75],"be":[76,138],"resolved":[77],"way.":[79],"At":[80],"same":[82],"time,":[83],"I":[84,128],"offer":[85],"critique":[87],"attempts":[90],"redefine":[92],"discipline's":[94],"mission":[95],"under":[96],"sign":[98],"an":[100],"\u201contological":[101],"turn\u201d":[102],"recurs":[104],"notions":[106],"radical":[108],"alterity":[109],"strike":[111],"me":[112],"as":[113,151,172],"potentially":[114],"essentialist,":[115],"certainly":[117],"profoundly":[118],"ahistorical.":[119],"Drawing":[120],"on":[121],"Karen":[122],"Barad's":[123],"theories":[124],"\u201cagential":[126],"realism,\u201d":[127],"suggest":[129],"contemporary":[131],"with":[133,167],"post-humanist":[134],"anti-representationalism":[135],"need":[136],"tempered":[139],"by":[140],"view":[142],"epistemic":[145,202],"pursuits,":[146],"including":[147],"those":[148,194],"anthropology,":[150],"embedded":[152],"thoroughly":[154],"historical\u2014and":[155],"so":[156],"fundamentally":[157],"emergent\u2014ontologies.":[158],"In":[159],"considerations,":[163],"concludes":[166],"vision":[169],"anthropology":[171],"form":[174],"knowledge":[176],"cannot":[178],"afford":[179],"evade":[181],"historical":[183,224],"transformations":[184,198],"social":[187],"worlds":[188],"aims":[190],"illuminate,":[192],"nor":[193],"concurrent":[197],"its":[200,208],"own":[201],"orientations.":[203],"Instead,":[204],"must":[206],"reframe":[207],"goals":[209],"conjunctures":[213],"ontologies":[215],"epistemologies":[217],"mutually":[219],"relational":[220],"and,":[221],"most":[222],"importantly,":[223],"scope.":[225]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":10},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-11-07T11:25:07.637180","created_date":"2018-10-12T00:00:00"}
