Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension
Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on a sociological research, combining qualitative interviews…
Clay and earth: Excavating partialities and relations
Clay and earth: Excavating partialities and relations Inspired by the idea of “transculturation,” formulated as a contrastive metaphor and concept by Fernando Ortiz in the 1940s, this article seeks to…
Talking culture—revisited
Talking culture—revisited Go to Source
The intensive image: Transculturation, creativity and presence in the cult of María Lionza
The intensive image: Transculturation, creativity and presence in the cult of María Lionza The cult of María Lionza is an Afro-Latin American religion native to Venezuela which usually involves episodes…
Minhoto counterpoints: On metaphysical pluralism and social emergence
Minhoto counterpoints: On metaphysical pluralism and social emergence In his classic work Contrapunteo cubano, Fernando Ortiz shows how two different plants and the products they yield can be at the…
Talking culture: New boundaries, new rhetorics of exclusion in Europe
Talking culture: New boundaries, new rhetorics of exclusion in Europe In the contemporary debate concerning European integration and the “problem” of Third World immigration no less than in developments in…
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Issues of power, inequality, and representation in…
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Every year, hundreds of citizens patrol the Mexican border dressed in camouflage…
True brujos and imitators: A reading of Fernando Ortiz’s Los negros brujos (1906)
True brujos and imitators: A reading of Fernando Ortiz’s Los negros brujos (1906) This article offers a reading of Ortiz’s first book, Los negros brujos (). By following the theme…
Strategies of dealing with the other: Coexistence and exclusion
Strategies of dealing with the other: Coexistence and exclusion The specific character of Ortiz’s theory of transculturation is dependent on the Cuban context in which, and for which, it was…
The lexicographic studies of Fernando Ortiz Fernández
The lexicographic studies of Fernando Ortiz Fernández This article analyzes the lexicographical studies undertaken by the distinguished Cuban anthropologist and ethnologist Fernando Ortiz Fernández concerning the Spanish spoken in Cuba.…
The fetishes of Fernando Ortiz
The fetishes of Fernando Ortiz A materialistic way to account for the continuities and discontinuities of the extended work of Cuban researcher, writer, and politician Fernando Ortiz, is to follow…
The legacy of Ortiz’s Yorubization of Lucumí: Translation as transculturation
The legacy of Ortiz’s Yorubization of Lucumí: Translation as transculturation The contemporary retranslation and circulation of Lucumí songs for the orishas (deities) among devotees and scholars in Cuba inadvertently reproduces…
Border dialectics and the border multiple: A view from the northern Caribbean
Border dialectics and the border multiple: A view from the northern Caribbean Questions related to hybridity, creolization, and the porosity of cultural forms have long concerned anthropologists. More often than…
A network of networks: Fernando Ortiz, crossroad between cultures
A network of networks: Fernando Ortiz, crossroad between cultures This article analyzes the role that Fernando Ortiz played in the articulation of transatlantic intellectual and academic networks between different Latin…
Fernando Ortiz (and the spiritists?) in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia
Fernando Ortiz (and the spiritists?) in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia This article explores the social framework of spiritism in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia during the time Fernando Ortiz…
Caribbean and Mediterranean counterpoints and transculturations
Caribbean and Mediterranean counterpoints and transculturations Probing the possibilities for transregional anthropological scholarship in light of the Cuban polymath Fernando Ortiz’s prolific work, this introduction surveys the development of Mediterraneanist…
Ethnographic stews: Decennial reflections
Ethnographic stews: Decennial reflections Go to Source
More Bread Less Circus
More Bread Less Circus Ethnography, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 154-163, June 2021. Go to Source
Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography
Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographers often work with individuals who are physically, psychologically, spiritually, and/or structurally vulnerable. The article…