Sincretismo cubano

Sincretismo cubano
Author: Raúl Rodríguez Dago
Publisher: Editorial San Pablo
Total Pages: 130
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9587156463

Raúl Rodríguez Dago, sacerdote estudioso de los llamados Cultos sincréticos o religiosos populares, pone a consideración del Lector sincretismo cubano: santeros, ñáñigos, paleros y espiritistas. El padre desde su mirada de fe, con respeto y prudencia, aborda Aristas peculiares y poco conocidas de las mismas.

Experiments in Cinema Yearbook #3: The Cubano Edition

Experiments in Cinema Yearbook #3: The Cubano Edition
Author: Bryan Konefsky
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-04-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1365875067

Experiments in Cinema international film festival (an annual Basement Films production) is proud to offer our 3rd annual yearbook that focuses on the current state of the art in Cuban alternative cinematic practices. The essays in this text are published in both English and Spanish.

Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba

Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
Author: Roberto Valcárcel Rojas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813055652

During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands’ natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became "Indios," their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and "civilized" them. Yet El Chorro de Maíta retained many of its indigenous characteristics. In this volume--one of the first in English to examine and document an archaeological site in Cuba--Roberto Valcárcel Rojas analyzes the construction of colonial authority and the various attitudes and responses of natives and other ethnic groups. His pioneering study reveals the process of transculturation in which new individuals emerged--Indians, mestizos, criollos--and helps construct the vital link between the pre-Columbian world and the development of an integrated and new history.

Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity

Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Author: Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2005-11-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0807876283

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this perspective, proposing that Cabrera's work offers an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba articulated by Ortiz and others. Rodriguez-Mangual examines Cabrera's ethnographic essays and short stories in context. By blurring fact and fiction, anthropology and literature, Cabrera defied the scientific discourse used by other anthropologists. She wrote of Afro-Cubans not as objects but as subjects, and in her writings, whiteness, instead of blackness, is gazed upon as the "other." As Rodriguez-Mangual demonstrates, Cabrera rewrote the history of Cuba and its culture through imaginative means, calling into question the empirical basis of anthropology and placing Afro-Cuban contributions at the center of the literature that describes the Cuban nation and its national identity.

Humanities

Humanities
Author: Lawrence Boudon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292706088

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 60 are as follows: Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Music Philosophy: Latin American Thought

Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts
Author: Mauricio A. Font
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315525003

First Published in 2016. If scholarship on Cuban studies after the 1959 revolution focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the construction of a socialist order, the post-1989 crisis of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe raised questions about the island’s state as a socialist model. The scholarly gaze gradually began to focus on possibilities for alternative transformations at various levels of social life rather than on the deepening of traditional twentieth-century state socialism. This volume explores the newly emergent themes and debates about Cuban society and history.

Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba

Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba
Author: María Encarnación Martín López
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1855662884

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart
Author: Olivier Debroise
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Cuban Counterpoints

Cuban Counterpoints
Author: Mauricio Augusto Font
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780739109687

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.

CHISPA '95

CHISPA '95
Author: Claire J. Paolini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: