Fernando Ortiz

Cuban Counterpoint

Tobacco and Sugar

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The first and only comprehensive study of the West Indian people. Ortiz ushered the Caribbean into the thought of the twentieth century and kept it there." --C. L. R. James

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822316169
• ISBN-10: 0822316161
• Artikelnr.: 22385567

Autorenporträt

Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969) was one of Cuba’s most influential public intellectuals. His vast work on Cuban culture includes the five-volume work, Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana. Fernando Coronil is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Duke University Press Edition, by Fernando Coronil ix
Introduction, by Bronislaw Malinowski lvii
By Way of Prologue, By Herminio Portell Vilá lxv
Cuban Counterpoint 3
The Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings
of Sugar in America 95
Glossary 311
Index Follows Page 312