Reviews
"Wirtz makes her case with admirable economy. Her claims are persuasive, both matching and illuminating in new ways both my own findings in Brazil and the work of others on Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Yet Wirtz brings her own gifts to the task, notably a background in ecology and evolutionary theory that, combined with her expertise in linguistic anthropology, give her descriptions of discursive competition as a path to religious survival a rare prescience and urgency."
--Journal of Anthropological Research