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Subject(s)

• Anthropology—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Anthropology—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Cultural fusion [Browse]
• Caribbean Area—Civilization [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—Civilization [Browse]
• Ortiz, Fernando 1881-1969 [Browse]

Editor

• Palmié, Stephan [Browse]

Series

Classics in Ethnographic Theory Series [More in this series]

Summary note

Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) coined the term "transculturation" in 1940. This was an early case of theory from the South: concepts developed from an explicitly peripheral epistemological vantage point and launched as a corrective to European and North American theoretical formulations. What Ortiz proposed was a contrapuntal vision of complexly entangled processes that we, today, would conceptualize as cultural emergence. Inspired by Ortiz, this volume engineers an unprecedented conversation between Mediterraneanists and Caribbeanists. It harnesses Ortiz's mid-twentieth-century theoretical formulations to early twenty-first-century issues pertinent to both regions, including migration, territorial sovereignty, and cultural diversity. The contributors explore this perspective (arguably formed during Ortiz's youth in late nineteenth-century Menorca) in a dialogue between scholars of the contemporary Caribbean and Mediterranean to enable novel analytics for both regions and to more broadly to probe the promises and limits of Ortiz's contribution for contemporary anthropological research and theorizing -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Contents

• Introduction: Caribbean and Mediterranean counterpoints and transculturations / Stephan Palmié
• Balearic beginnings. Fernando Ortiz (and the spiritists?) in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia / Gerard Horta
• A network of networks: Fernando Ortiz, crossroad between cultures / Consuelo Naranjo Orovio
• Border worlds. Border dialectics and the border multiple: A view from the northern Caribbean / Jeffrey Kahn
• Strategies of dealing with the other: Coexistence and exclusion / Glenn Bowman
• Afro-Cuban fetishizations. True brujos and imitators: A reading of Fernando Ortiz's Los negros brujos (1906) / Ramon Sarró
• The fetishes of Fernando Ortiz / Jorge Pavez Ojeda
• Linguistic and culinary perspectives. The lexicographic studies of Fernando Ortiz Fernández / Sergio O. Valdés Bernal
• The legacy of Ortiz's Yorubization of Lucumí: Translation as transculturation / Amanda Villepastour
• Reheating the ajiaco: Fernando Ortiz's theorization of sacred cuisine / Elizabeth Pérez
• Ethnographies of transculturation. Clay and earth: Excavating partialities and relations / Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
• Minhoto counterpoints: On metaphysical pluralism and social emergence / João Pina-Cabral
• The intensive image: Transculturation, creativity and presence in the cult of María Lionza / Roger Canals
• "I certainly didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" Politics of transculturation in a Spanish enclave in North Africa / Brian Campbell
• Reprint. Talking culture thirty years on-Revisited / Verena Stolcke
• Talking culture: New boundaries, new rhetorics of exclusion in Europe / Verena Stolcke
• Afterword. Caribbean-Mediterranean counterpoint / Charles Stewart.

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ISBN

1-912808-94-3

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