Rather, it merges these concepts and instead carries the idea of the consequent creation of new cultural phenomena in which the blending of cultures is understood as producing. The very concept of ethnicity and its distinctions is incongruous to their immersed concepts. From a speech made at club atenas in havana, december 12 1942 the white man attacks the black in order to snatch him from his land and enslave him by force. Fernando ort z on the phases of transculturation, from a speech made in abstract. Fernando ortiz, the cuban longue duree, and the role of columbus. The term transculturation, with all its limits and diversity of interpretations, was initially coined by the writer and. Transculturation is a term fernadno by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.
In his book on the history of tobacco and sugar in cuba. 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. Communicating with transculturation openedition journals. Fernando ortiz on the phases of transculturation retrieved from s. Please, subscribe or login to access full text content. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging transcklturation. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
The obstacle to ethnoconvergence is ethnocentrismwhich is the view that ones culture is of greater importance than anothers. Noun edit transculturation countable and uncountable, plural transculturations. Fernando ortiz and the beginnings of latin american ethnography in the spirit of italian criminology. Pdf cultural angle and degrees of transculturation in. Counterpoint and transculturation one of the challenges facing the future of cultural studies is the coherence between. Transculturation, syncretism, and hybridity springerlink. Towards a reading of fernando ortizs cuban counterpoint. In many cosmopolitan societies, religion is everythingsocial, utilitarian, intellectual, political. The term transculturation was coined in 1940 by the cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz to denominate the transformative process undergone by a society in the acquisition of foreign. In the early twentieth century, news spread in the academic circles of cuban social sciences that the fossil of a. From a speech made at club atenas in havana, december 12 1942 the white man attacks the black in order to.
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