Cuban Counterpoint

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Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from many points of view. Their economic aspects form the base, but they are examined, too, for their effects on folklore, art, science, industry, and daily human living. Out of personal experience, memory, and a lifetime of reading in all the western European languages, Dr. Ortiz has condensed exactly what is most telling, interesting, and significant about the leafy plant and the cane that together have made the story of his native land. The present translation, by Harriet de Onís, was made from a text specially prepared in Spanish by the author. It has an admiring introduction by the late Bronislaw Malinowski and a prologue by Herminio Portell Vilá, noted Cuban historian and sociologist.

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Genre : History
Author : Random House
Publisher : Knopf
Release : 2012-06-20
File : 453 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780307820266


Cuban Counterpoint Tobacco And Sugar

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First published in 1940 and long out of print, Fernando Ortiz’s classic work, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Ortiz’s examination of the impact of sugar and tobacco on Cuban society is unquestionably the cornerstone of Cuban studies and a key source for work on Caribbean culture generally. Ortiz presents his understanding of Cuban history in two complementary sections written in contrasting styles: a playful allegorical tale narrated as a counterpoint between tobacco and sugar and a historical analysis of their development as the central agricultural products of the Cuban economy. His work shows how transculturation, a critical category Ortiz developed to grasp the complex transformation of cultures brought together in the crucible of colonial and imperial histories, can be used to illuminate not only the history of Cuba, but, more generally, that of America as well. This new edition includes an introductory essay by Fernando Coronil that provides a contrapuntal reading of the relationship between Ortiz’s book and its original introduction by the renowned anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Arguing for a distinction between theory production and canon formation, Coronil demonstrates the value of Ortiz’s book for anthropology as well as Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American studies, and shows Ortiz to be newly relevant to contemporary debates about modernity, postmodernism, and postcoloniality.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Fernando Ortiz
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Release : 1995
File : 420 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105112781856


Cuban Counterpoints

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While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences--notably anthropology--and law, religion and national identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking--which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity--has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies.

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Genre : History
Author : Mauricio Augusto Font
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release : 2005
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0739109685


My Own Private Cuba

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher : Society of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies
Release : 1999
File : 266 Pages
ISBN-13 : UTEXAS:059173005887663


From The Cuban Ajiaco To The Cuban American Hyphen

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Genre : Cuban Americans
Author : Jorge Duany
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Release : 1997
File : 44 Pages
ISBN-13 : UTEXAS:059173012405875


The Beat

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Genre : Music
Author :
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Release : 1992
File : 490 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822025933490


Slave Counterpoint

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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

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Genre : History
Author : Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Release : 1998
File : 748 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X004351744


Music Writing And Cultural Unity In The Caribbean

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This collection of essays brings together performers, writers, critics and musicologists from the Dutch-, English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as well as Britain and the US. It explores the history of music and writing from trans-Atlantic, intra-Caribbean and global perspectives. The contributors discuss exchanges between Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and native America, the places of music and dance in Caribbean culture in general, in the establishment of a literary aesthetic, in idividual authors and in specific island cultures.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Timothy J. Reiss
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Release : 2005
File : 440 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000054263055


Bitter Cuban Sugar

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Félix Goizueta-Mimó
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Release : 1987
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X001275468


Cuban Festivals

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This work describes how, in Brazil, Catholic priests and the colonial government as early as 1573 allowed and encouraged the African slaves to celebrate Epiphany and the Festival of the Three Kings.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Judith Bettelheim
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
Release : 2001
File : 254 Pages
ISBN-13 : UTEXAS:059173009689209