Transculturation is a term fernadno by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. The uruguayan rama is, along with perus antonio cornejo polar and brazils antonio candido, one of the leading lights in latin american literary criticism. Writing across cultures angel rama was one of twentiethcentury latin americas most distinguished men of letters. Fernando ortiz 18811969 was one of cubas most influential public intellectuals. It argues that ortiz ranks among the most important theorists of the postcolonial condition.
Pdf afro cuban traditional music and transculturation. He was a prolific writer on many aspects of african cuban culture but has very little of his writings in english, with the exceptions noted in his bibliography and a new book of studies on ortiz which includes a biography in english and french and a complete bibliography. First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizandrsquo. Transculturation emphasizes the agency involved in cultural change, as well as the loss that accompanies cultural acquisition. Fernando ortiz fernandez havana, 16 july 1881 havana, 10 april 1969 was a cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of afrocuban culture. Transculturation institut fur anglistikamerikanistik. Fernando coronil is assistant professor of anthropology and history at the university of michigan. Click download or read online button to transculturation book. Ortiz disagreed with the north american term acculturation used to describe the colonial relations. For example, transculturation is the process by which two cultures exchange their cultures in a manner that the oppressed culture adopts most of the dominant culture in their way of life for obvious reasons. Transculturation, cultural studies, fernando ortiz, hybridity. See ortiz 1995 and fernando coronils analysis of the colonial differential between malinowskis concept of acculturation and ortizs transculturation coronil, 1995.
The term transculturation was first used by the cuban sociologist fernando ortiz to describe the formation of cuban culture from the coming together of indigenous, spanish, and african populations. Towards a reading of fernando ortizs cuban counterpoint. Silvia spitta departs from the cuban fernando ortiz s cultural theory of transculturation. The black man rebels, if such a thing is possible and fights. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1947 to describe the phenomenon of. Transculturation and literature latin american studies. Mestizaje, transculturation, heterogeneity social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation wayde compton and the performance of black time they advanced to the portraits of their friends and offered them their hands robert houle, ojibwa tableaux vivants, and transcultural materialism. 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. Part of the new caribbean studies book series ncars. Fernando ort z on the phases of transculturation, from a speech made in abstract. Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another. His purpose was to explain the different stages and results of cultural contact among people brought together by european colonial expansion into.
In 1940, cuban ethnographer fernando ortiz coined the concept of transculturation for the sphere of anthropological research. Transculturation what it is, characteristics, history. In the initial phase of the transculturation process, the oppressed group is subordinated by the oppressor group, will behave in a hostile manner and will try to rebel. Ortiz 18811969, a cuban anthropologist, author, and ethnographer, developed the concept of transculturation using cubas colonial history as his platform.
In writing across cultures, rama extends the cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz \s theory of transculturation far beyond cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across latin america, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, african, and european societies for the better part of five centuries. Amazingly prolific, his publications written between the 1890s and the mid1950s engage with a vast array of subjects and disciplines. History, culture, politics, aviva chomsky, barry carr, alfredo prieto, pamela maria smorkaloff. First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizs classic work, cuban counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of latin american and caribbean intellectual history. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. It can be read as an epistemological stand advancing the understanding of latin america through latinamerican theoretical tools. Part of the new directions in latino american cultures book series ndlac. Transculturation project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. First 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. Transculturation is a seminal concept that has been widely used and discussed in the fields of anthropology, sociology, and postcolonial studies. Transculturation is quite evident within the greek house where i belong to. Click download or read online button to get transculturation book now. Transculturation and literature latin american studies oxford. Transculturation keywords for american cultural studies.
The ethnography and transculturation of havana tobacco and the. One of the challenges facing the future of cultural studies is the coherence between conceptual tools and objects of research. Instead, ortiz insisted on understanding intercultural dynamics as a twoway toma y daca give and take spitta 1995, 34. Fernando ortiz search for other works by this author on. Apr 08, 2020 fernando ortiz, anthropologist, essayist, and philologist who pioneered in the study of neoafrican cultures in the americas, particularly in cuba. Fernando ortiz is recognized today as one of the most influential latin american authors of the 20th century. Ortiz gave prominence to the term in two chapters of his book tobacco and sugar, 1947. Arguing for a distinction between theory production and canon formation, coronil demonstrates the value of ortizs 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. Writing across cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of latin american literature. There arrived together, and in mass, iron, gunpowder, the horse, the wheel, the sail, the compass, money, wages, writing, the printingpress, books, the master, the king, the church, the banker. Ortizs 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. Fernando ortz on the phases of transculturation, from a speech made in 1942.
At the same time, the exponential growth of information and communication technologies icts over the last few decades has shaped. I am of the opinion that the word transculturation better expresses the different phases of the process of transition from one culture to another because this does not consist merely in acquiring another culture, which is what the english word acculturation really implies, but the process also necessarily involves the loss or uprooting of a previous culture, which. This book is the first work in english to reassess ortiz s vast intellectual universe. Perhaps ortiz s most significant accomplishments were the creation of the field of afrocuban studies and major. Afro cuban traditional music and transculturation book summary. Cubas first folklorist, fernando ortiz, noted that cubas musical innovations arose from, the transculturation between african slaves settled on large sugar plantations and spaniards who grew tobacco on small farms ortiz, fernando 1952.
The concept of transculturation was coined by the cuban sociologist fernando ortiz 1947. Download pdf transculturation free online new books in. Fernando ortiz, anthropologist, essayist, and philologist who pioneered in the study of neoafrican cultures in the americas, particularly in cuba. Contact zones and transculturation metaphor by metaphor. Fernando ortizs concept of transculturation fernando ortiz first introduced the concept of transculturation as a methodological tool meant to synthesize the extensive and detailed analysis on the development of cuban society and culture in his book, cuban counterpoint. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1947 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. This term was a revision of the term acculturation introduced to us and british anthropology and social sciences by the jewish polish ethnographer brolisnaw j. Transculturation in our sister killyjoy and nervous. Fernando ortiz s construct of transculturation, in acknowledging the intertwined processes of acculturation, deculturation and neoculturation, provides a useful framework for examining crosscultural adaptation. That an incongruity between theory and object should have emerged in such a relatively new field was to be expected, perhaps, for in little more than its two decades worth the field has struggled to develop a vocabulary of its own while also reining. Transculturation download transculturation ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format.
One, if not the most important, aspect of the book is the new word he puts forward to explain cuban history. Narrative transculturation in latin america is a superb piece of work. The ethnography and transculturation of havana tobacco and the beginnings of sugar in america i on. Transculturation is best describe as, where cultures fuse and conflict ceases. The concept of transculturation appears for the first time in ortiz 1995 originally published in 1940, as a contribution to the study of cuba and to the general field of social sciences. In writing across cultures, rama extends the cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz s theory of transculturation far beyond cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across latin america, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, african, and european societies for the better part of five centuries. Abstract this paper examines the life and work of fernando ortiz, with a focus on his development of the term transculturation. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1940 to describe. Quite the contrary, europeans are often polyglots, and may label other individuals by their ethnicities. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Cuban counterpoint first 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 was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous cuban culture. Fernando ortiz was the first person to write using the term afrocubano.
First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizs classic work, cuban counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of latin. The latter, transculturation is the term used to define cultural change induced by introduction of elements of a foreign culture. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1940 from the article our america by jose marti to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. 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. It concentrates on ortizs invention of the term transculturation. Ortiz began his career as a lawyer and criminologist he was among the first to advocate the use of fingerprinting in police work. Anthropologist fernando ortiz explains the process of transculturation by explaining the relations between white europeans and black slaves in cuba during the period of colonization. In the initial phase of the transculturation process, the oppressed group is subordinated by the oppressor group, will behave in a hostile manner and will try to rebel against it. In his book on the history of tobacco and sugar in cuba. First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizs c. He has authored books on jose marti, pablo neruda, fernando ortiz, and.
This chapter highlights the signal importance of fernando ortizs work to the discipline of ethnography and politics. Ortizs 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. The black man rebels, if such a thing is possible and fights his oppressor. That an incongruity between theory and object should have emerged in such a relatively new field was to be expected, perhaps, for in little more than its two decades worth the field has struggled to develop a vocabulary of its own while also reining in. First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizs classic work, cuban. Africans embraced their oral culture and native languages and african traditions. Ortiz created the neoligism transculturation to undermine the homogenizing impact implicit in the term acculturation, which in his view obfuscated the true dynamics at work in colonial situations. One of the many responses to this predicament was issued by the cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz, in his book cuban counterpoint 1940 in which he aimed to tackle the problematic of culture contact. Contents introduction to the duke university press edition, by fernando coronil ix introduction, by bronislaw malinowski lvii by way of prologue, by herminio portell vila lxv 1. Transculturation download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. His work shows how transculturation, a critical category ortiz developed to.
Latin american transculturation 1671 words bartleby. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Originally proposed in the 1940s by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz, transculturation refers to the processes through which multiple cultures produce hybrid cultural elements that cannot be traced to a single originating culture. Modifies ortiz, following angel rama, to include all of latin america, not just cuba, as a culture defined and. In writing across cultures, rama extends the cuban anthropologist fernando ortizs theory of transculturation far beyond cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across latin america, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, african, and european societies for the better part of five centuries. His purpose was to explain the different stages and results of cultural contact among people brought together by european colonial expansion into the caribbean.
Transculturation meaning transculturation pronunciation. A term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz that refers to a process in which members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant culture. The history of the reflections upon transculturation encompasses both traditions. Ortizs examination of the impact of sugar and tobacco on cuban society is unquestionably the cornerstone of cuban studies and a key source. Transculturation transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1947 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. Communicating with transculturation openedition journals.
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