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 * Ochoa, Todd Ramon. "VERSIONS OF THE DEAD: Kalunga, Cuban-Kongo**
 * Materiality, and Ethnography" __CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.__ 22. 4 (2007): 473–500**

Multiple definitions of the dead in Palo, sustained simultaneously (Ochoa 488-489)

"The dead in Palo is best understood as an uncontainable spreading, each unstable version becoming yet another, which stands not in opposition to its serial self-others, but alongside them, sliding along the a surface on the way to and from the limitless becoming of Kalunga."(Ochoa 489)

I think of the definition of dead in Palo similarly to the definition of my favorite radio station (NPR). Here in the Capital District Area, we have public radio on 90.3 As you approach 90 you start to tune in. At 90.3 the signal is clear, but it was also clear at 90.2 and it will still be clear at 90.4…you can listen to any of these, they are all public radio, but their station number is a little different.

So, for the simultaneous definitions of dead in Palo…station number=a single simultaneuos instance of definition.

Another metaphor would be vector spaces in linear algebra, but I am not awake enough to use that one.