In The Cooking of History, I argued that “Afro-Cuban religion” and “the anthropology thereof” have been deeply entangled, and, in part, mutually constitutive of each other throughout the twentieth century. My current research focuses on how this moment played out over the years that I have been a participant observer among my interlocutors in Miami and La Habana, and my scholarly peers in Cuba, Europe and America as well. How have the “rationalities” Afro-Cuban ritual praxis and scholarship on it come to form what, following Karen Barad, we might call an “intra-active” assemblage? One where neither term of a relation can be said to precede or enjoy unmediated existence apart from the other, but must be thought in tandem? Apart from surveying the literature on Afro-Cuban religion over the past 40 years, I plan to interview a number of ethnographers of Afro-Cuban Religion as well as some of their informants.