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Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujería emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujería has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.
- Sales Rank: #1759962 in Books
- Published on: 2003-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .75" w x 6.00" l, 1.09 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 335 pages
Review
"Overall, Witchcraft and Welfare is an excellent analysis of Puerto Rican Brujería and other African diasporic religions. This book, however, is not only useful for students and scholars of Puerto Rican or Caribbean culture and religion. It is also, through its ingenious analysis of the influences of 21st century globalization on the processes of syncretization, a window on the macrocosm of future trends in world religion." (The Journal of Latin American Anthropology)
"Witchcraft and Welfare is a delightful and insightful book, evocative and well-written, which unpacks the multilayered history of Puerto Rican folk beliefs and practices convincingly showing not only how brujería makes sense in people’s everyday lives, but also how it is becoming institutionalised as an integral part of official Puerto Rican society, and indeed how beliefs and practices of this kind can be complementary, not opposed, to bureaucratic rationality." (Anthropos)
"This book makes an important addition to the literature on magic and spirits in the modern world. . . . In comparison with other well-known anthropological works on magic and modernity, this stands out on account of its skill at evocation, at getting inside people and events and not merely using them as examples or ‘case studies.’" (Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University)
Review
"This book makes an important addition to the literature on magic and spirits in the modern world. . . . In comparison with other well-known anthropological works on magic and modernity, this stands out on account of its skill at evocation, at getting inside people and events and not merely using them as examples or ‘case studies.’" (Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University)
About the Author
Raquel Romberg currently teaches at Tel Aviv University in Israel. She taught previously at Swarthmore College and Temple University and was a Mellon Scholar in the Institute for Global Stdies in Culture, Power and History at Johns Hopkins University.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The life an times of Puerto Rican Brujas. Witches.
By El Brujo
This is probably the first and single most important book on Puerto Rican Espiritismo and Brujeria (Witchcraft) as it is practiced on the island. The book does not just only give you an anthropological look into Brujeria, but also the history on how it probably started out on the Island as well as how Taino, African and Spanish Catholic influences has changed the face of Brujeria and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico.
The book also introduces Haydee, La Numero Uno Bruja de Loiza. :The Number One Witch-Healer of Loiza, Puerto Rico." The author takes you into the mind of a modern bruja, and their practices. It also gives you how Cuban Santeria and its pantheon of Orisha Spirits has been intermingled and embraced into its cosmology. Topics on Curanderismo and Kardecian Spiritism are also spoken about.
This is an important book for all Puerto Rican who are looking for their identity within Espiritismo, Santeria, Curanderismo or Brujeria. Haydee "may she rest in peace" may have lived a life that many have not approved on, she may have been a hypocrite to others, but she was honest, she had nothing to hide. Not to the author of the book and especially not to any of it's readers. For that alone I enjoyed its sincearity, and I can Highly recommend this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Engagingly written ethnography and history of brujeria
By A Customer
This volume offers an engagingly written ethnography and history of brujeria (witch-healing) as practiced on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Romberg argues convincingly that brujeria is not a marginal or exotic practice, but an active partner of contemporary Puerto Rican consumerism and the welfare state. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of the nature of magic and an exposition on the quest for "authenticity" in contemporary Caribbean religions. Recommended. Stephen D. Glazier, Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Raquel and Haydée
By Edwin Harper
Romberg has written an excellent book on the history of the belief and practices of Espiritismo as it exists in Puerto Rico. What makes this book more special is the fact that she wrote it both as an observer and student. As an observer because it was to be her dissertation for her doctorate and as a student because the individual she chose to work and learn from, Haydée Trinidad, entrusted Ms Romberg with her knowledge and expertise feeling strongly that her gift could be passed on to capable hands. The book seamlessly alternates between the late Ms Trinidad's practices and instructions and reference material that Ms Romberg researched in Puerto Rico and Washington. If for anything else, I think this is an important document about Puerto Rican culture whether you believe in Espiritismo or not. As to Ms Romberg's attitude? I like the quote she inserted in the book's introduction when she asked someone if they believed in Espiritismo. The answer was, "I don't believe in it...but it works." Anyone interested in Spirituality or New Age should have this book on his/her shelf--a wonderful and heartfelt dedication to the spirit of Espiritismo and the legend that was Haydée Trinidad.
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