Cuban Counterpoint Tobacco And Sugar

Author : Fernando Ortiz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822316161

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Cuban Counterpoint, Tobacco and Sugar by Fernando Ortiz Pdf

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. Though written over fifty years ago, Ortiz's study of the formation of a national culture in this region has significant implications for contemporary postcolonial studies. 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. Treating tobacco and sugar both as agricultural commodities and as social characters in a historical process, he examines changes in their roles as the result of transculturation. 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.

Author : Fernando Ortiz Fernández
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833049704

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Cuban Counterpoint by Fernando Ortiz Fernández Pdf

Author : Fernando Ortiz Fernández
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833049704

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Cuban Counterpoint by Fernando Ortiz Fernández Pdf

Author : Random House
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307820266

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Cuban Counterpoint by Random House Pdf

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.

Author : Mauricio Augusto Font,Alfonso W. Quiroz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0739109685

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Cuban Counterpoints by Mauricio Augusto Font,Alfonso W. Quiroz Pdf

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.

Author : Fernando Ortiz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781439911730

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Fernando Ortiz on Music by Fernando Ortiz Pdf

Part I. Early writings -- The future of Cuban witchcraft -- Afro-Cuban cabildos -- Part II. Instrument essays -- Makuta -- Ararâa drums -- The Chekerâe, âAgbe, or Aggèuâe -- The conga -- Part III. Ethnographic essays -- Kongo traditions -- The religious music of black Cuban Yorubas -- The "tragedy" of the äNâaänigos -- Satirical and commercial song

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469651439

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Rice in the Time of Sugar by Louis A. Pérez Jr. Pdf

How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports—a signal feature of the Cuban economy—was set in place. Cuban efforts to diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on the Cuban market as sugar growers were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to control Cuban rice markets. Perez's chronicle culminates in the 1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island, as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista. U.S. interests prevailed—a success, Perez argues, that contributed to undermining Batista's capacity to govern. Cuba's inability to develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice, but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.

Author : Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683401377

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Key to the New World by Luis Martínez-Fernández Pdf

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction International Latino Book Awards, First Place, Best History Book (English) Scholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on Cuba’s recent history. Key to the New World is the first comprehensive history of early colonial Cuba written in English, and fills the gap in our knowledge of the island before 1700.

Author : Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822318652

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The Repeating Island by Antonio Benitez-Rojo Pdf

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521027322

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The Cuban Condition by Gustavo Pérez Firmat Pdf

Firmat explores the process of assimilation or transculturation in the case of Cuba, and proposes a new understanding of the issue of Cuban national identity through revisionary readings dating from the early decades of the twentieth century, a time of intense self-reflection in the nation's history. He argues that Cuban identity is translational rather than foundational and that cubanía emerges from a nuanced, self-conscious recasting of foreign models.

Author : Paul Ryer
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826503862

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Beyond Cuban Waters by Paul Ryer Pdf

Twenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily life of Cubans at every cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans, this book examines Cuban understandings of the world and of Cuba's place in it, especially as illuminated by two contrasting notions: "La Yuma," a distinctly Cuban concept of the American experience, and "África," the ideological understanding of that continent's experience. Ryer takes us into the homes of Cuban families, out to the streets and nightlife of bustling cities, and on boat journeys that reach beyond the typical destinations, all to better understand the nature of the cultural life of a nation. This pursuit of Western status symbols represents a uniquely Cuban experience, set apart from other cultures pursuing the same things. In the Cuban case, this represents neither an acceptance nor rejection of the American cultural influence, but rather a co-opting or "Yumanizing" of these influences.

Author : Manuel M. Fraginals
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780853453192

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Sugarmill by Manuel M. Fraginals Pdf

Analyzes the technical, economic, political, and social aspects and consequences of the development of Cuba's sugar industry, within the context of worldwide production.

Author : Kathleen Brogan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813918278

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Cultural Haunting by Kathleen Brogan Pdf

In this text, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that the recent preoccupation with ghosts stems not from a lingering interest in Gothic themes, but instead from a whole new genre in American literature that she calls 'the story of cultural haunting'.

Author : Pierre Charbonnier,Gildas Salmon,Peter Skafish
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783488599

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Comparative Metaphysics by Pierre Charbonnier,Gildas Salmon,Peter Skafish Pdf

An advanced introduction to the new philosophical anthropology and an understanding of the most contemporary developments in it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834978

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Blurred Borders by Anonim Pdf

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