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Cuban Counterpoint : Tobacco and Sugar by Fernando. Ortiz (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822316161

ISBN-139780822316169

eBay Product ID (ePID)539916

Product Key Features

Book TitleCuban Counterpoint : Tobacco and Sugar

Number of Pages408 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAgriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Industries / General, General, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba

Publication Year1995

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History

AuthorFernando. Ortiz

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight16.8 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN94-038200

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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, "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

Dewey Decimal338.1/7371/097291

Table Of ContentIntroduction 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

SynopsisFirst 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.

LC Classification NumberHD9144.C9O713 1995