Description
Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar.
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.
About the Author
Stephan Palmie is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, most recently The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion, and the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic anthropology and history.
Reviews
"This collection is probably the most important collective effort to date to grapple with the contemporary significance of Fernando Ortiz's work. The book inspects the biographical, structural and historical experiences that gave shape to Ortiz's concept of 'transculturation,' and then lets the concept loose on the two regions from which it sprung forth. It is an ambitious collective project that inspects the cultural and intellectual background of a concept and its critical potential for a comparative anthropology of the present." -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of "Death and the idea of Mexico" and "The return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon"
Book Information
ISBN 9781912808922
Author Stephan Palmie
Format Paperback
Page Count 550
Imprint HAU Books
Publisher HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory
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.
About the Author
Stephan Palmie is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, most recently The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion, and the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic anthropology and history.
Reviews
"This collection is probably the most important collective effort to date to grapple with the contemporary significance of Fernando Ortiz's work. The book inspects the biographical, structural and historical experiences that gave shape to Ortiz's concept of 'transculturation,' and then lets the concept loose on the two regions from which it sprung forth. It is an ambitious collective project that inspects the cultural and intellectual background of a concept and its critical potential for a comparative anthropology of the present." -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of "Death and the idea of Mexico" and "The return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon"
Book Information
ISBN 9781912808922
Author Stephan Palmie
Format Paperback
Page Count 550
Imprint HAU Books
Publisher HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory
