Fernando Ortiz – Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints

Stephan Palmié 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.

• Introduction: Caribbean and Mediterranean counterpoints and transculturationsStephan PalmiéBALEARIC BEGINNINGSFernando Ortiz (and the spiritists?) in the Balearic Islands and CataloniaGerard HortaA network of networks: Fernando Ortiz, crossroad between culturesConsuelo Naranjo OrovioBORDER WORLDSBorder dialectics and the border multiple: A view from the northern CaribbeanJeffrey KahnStrategies of dealing with the other: Coexistence and exclusionGlenn BowmanAFRO-CUBAN FETISHIZATIONSTrue brujos and imitators: A reading of Fernando Ortiz’s Los negros brujos (1906)Ramon SarróThe fetishes of Fernando OrtizJorge Pavez OjedaLINGUISTIC AND CULINARY PERSPECTIVESThe lexicographic studies of Fernando Ortiz FernándezSergio O. Valdés BernalThe legacy of Ortiz’s Yorubization of Lucumí: Translation as transculturationAmanda VillepastourReheating the ajiaco: Fernando Ortiz’s theorization of sacred cuisineElizabeth PérezETHNOGRAPHIES OF TRANSCULTURATIONClay and earth: Excavating partialities and relationsOlivia Maria Gomes da CunhaMinhoto counterpoints: On metaphysical pluralism and social emergenceJoão Pina-CabralThe intensive image: Transculturation, creativity and presence in the cult of María LionzaRoger Canals“I certainly didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!” Politics of transculturation in a Spanish enclave in North AfricaBrian CampbellREPRINTTalking culture thirty years on—RevisitedVerena StolckeTalking culture: New boundaries, new rhetorics of exclusion in EuropeVerena StolckeAFTERWORDCaribbean–Mediterranean counterpointCharles StewartIndex

“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.”