1. Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Das Exil der Götter: Schichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion (1991), Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002), and editor of Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery (1995) and Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions (2008).