Oritz worked to describe the process by which a conquered person selects the aspects of the dominant culture to assume. Pdf encontrando a silvia finding silvia download full pdf. I have seen a couple of definitions, but like many anthropological terms they are not very clear, and overlap. Globalization is a complex term, but can be simply used to describe the interaction between different societies and populations. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging transcklturation. 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. Globalization, transcultural music, and ethnic identities, christopher dennis 2012 lanham, maryland. Processes of transculturation in latin american narrative. Transculturating transculturation diana taylor performing. Sugar and tobacco 2 served as transculturation conduits, the first being brought by europeans.
Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another. 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. Quite the contrary, europeans are often polyglots, and may label other individuals by their ethnicities. I am of the opinion that the word transculturation better expresses the different phases of the process of transition from one culture to another. Colombians believe they are responsible for the drug consumption in the united states and they blame themselves for the violence the country suffers because of it. This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and nonliterary cultures of latin america and lusophone africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Transculturation is a complex phenomenon, and can have both positive and negative effects on a culture. First published in 1940 and long out of print, fernando ortizs classic work. However, currently there is increasing globalization. Coetzee that his vision goes to the nervecentre of being. Postcolonial perspectives on latin american and lusophone cultures book description. At one level, then, the current conceptualisation of. What evidence from his text might defend that idea.
Does creative work with language, that employs digital media and exposes necessarily the dynamic processes of signification, lend itself to reflecting. Postcolonial perspectives on latin american and lusophone. Transculturation posits culture as a relational phenomenon constituted. Noun edit transculturation countable and uncountable, plural transculturations. 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. Fernando ort z on the phases of transculturation, from a speech made in abstract. Transculturation definition of transculturation by the. Anglofrench relations and the acadians in canadas maritime. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Cuban counterpoint by fernando ortiz is a masterpiece by its time and still influential almost 70 years later.
Transculturation definition and meaning collins english. Afrocolombias hiphop performs intricate global, regional. 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. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writers mastery of tension and. Writing multicultural america into the twentieth century. Pdf cultural angle and degrees of transculturation in. The term transculturation was first used by cuban critic fernando ortiz in his study of cuban history. Fernando ortiz ortiz 1947 proposed the concept of transculturation, which may offer insights that will assist in apprehending how contemporary changes in culture and language have proceeded.
Pdf current western societies are characterized by cultural diversity. Uvadare digital academic repository writing the nation. English department, university of gothenburg, box 200, se4 053gothenburg anglofrench relations have had a significant influence on the fiction created in. Download departs from the cuban fernando ortiz s cultural theory of transculturation. History, culture, politics, aviva chomsky, barry carr, alfredo prieto, pamela maria smorkaloff download citation file. Transculturation, conceptualized in the work of fernando ortiz, described the agency of disarticulated groups as they selected and recreated from materials they appropriated from metropolitan sources, to form identities and negotiate power relations. 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. Transculturation, cultural transfer, and the colonial matrix of power. Transculturation in english with contextual examples. For these reasons i am undertaking a short survey in this paper of the transculturation, after fernando ortiz, of realism in africa, tracing its genesis from the primary mode of the western novel form to its utilization in anticolonial resistance literature and transmogrification into the magical realism and postmodernism of postcolonial.
The process of translation and transculturation, as we will show, is also crucial to. Ortiz s understanding of transculturation identified three movements that constituted the process. Fernando ortiz 18811968, cuban urscholar who wrote extensively on afrocuban culture, was the first to coin the term transculturationthat is, to make it stickin analyzing the historical, cultural, economic counterpoint between tobacco and sugar that he claimed could be the organizing image for understanding the islands rich. Fernando ortiz, the cuban anthropologist, first used the term transculturation in the 1940s to combine previous conceptualisations that aimed at describing the transformations derived by cultural contact, mostly as a result of colonisation.
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. Defined as the use of a cultures symbols, artifacts, genres. Yakhal inkomo download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Its importance reflects a growing interest in transculturationa term coined. Narrative transculturation in latin america, edited and translated by david frye durham. Counterpoint and transculturation one of the challenges facing the future of cultural studies is the coherence between conceptual tools and objects of research. During a speech made at the club atenas in havana on december 12, 1942, ortiz described the four phases of transculturation. Pdf afro cuban traditional music and transculturation. The example he uses to define the phases is the white man enslaving the black man. Although each of these types can be understood as relevant to particular contexts or eras, transculturation questions the bounded and proprietary view of culture embedded in other types of appropriation. The term transculturation, which fernando ortiz 1947 1995 was the first to use, describes the processes of adoption, recontextualization, and reconceptualization of practices from another culture. Jan, 2020 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.
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. Fernando ortiz 18811968, cuban urscholar who wrote extensively on afrocuban culture, was the first to coin the term transculturationthat is, to make it stickin analyzing the historical, cultural, economic counterpoint between tobacco. At long last, the englishreading world can lay its hands on the series of essays in which the influential uruguayan literary critic angel rama developed his idea of narrative transculturation. Abstract phd dissertation at the university of gothenburg, 2008 title. This intricate process leverages fernando ortizs transculturation, updated for the globalized era, although a discussion of how this may differ from nestor garcia canclinis hybridity is never engaged and would be especially pertinent given hiphops birth coinciding with many globalization practices. 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, syncretism, and hybridity springerlink. A view into culture culture is becoming more and more integrated and shared between societies we can no longer say we are strictly citizens of a country and we have a society that belongs strictly to the one which we live we are influenced culture. 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 ortiz, the cuban longue duree, and the role of columbus. Anglofrench relations and the acadians in canadas maritime literature.
English 3510 contact zones and transculturation from american passages has pablo tac written an example of transculturation. I am going to take the liberty of employing for the first time the term transculturation, fully aware of the fact that it is a neologism, explaining that he wanted. Cultural change induced by introduction of elements of a foreign culture. Transculturation functions not only within the established context of the colonial but also the postcolonial, where human migration has proceeded, for multiple reasons, in multiple directions. In this chapter i shall consider mimesis as an integral component of transculturation. Transculturation is the reciprocal process by which two cultures, upon contact, engage in a system of give and take and adaptation to each others ways, though often not in an equal manner, resulting in the emergence of a new cultural reality ortiz 1970. This intricate process leverages fernando ortizs transculturation, updated for the. Transculturation is a term coined by cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz in 1 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.
Carmen birkle, migration miscegenation transculturation. N2 cultural appropriation is often mentioned but undertheorized in critical rhetorical and media studies. Fernando ortiz, angel rama and marie louise pratt, where it appears as a dynamic process of intercultural connections that creates possibilities for transforming ones own community by appropriating parts of other cultural systems. In our argument, translation and transculturation are conceptualized as fundamental processes in building the very idea of modernity and its constitutive companion, coloniality. Contact zones and transculturation metaphor by metaphor.
Fernando ortz on the phases of transculturation, from a speech made in 1942. Colombian transculturation has occurred on two levels. According to ortiz, transculturation encompasses acculturation assimilation, deculturation. Ortiz 1947 1995, to mean the adoption of cultural practices and their. Towards a reading of fernando ortizs cuban counterpoint. I have chosen the word transculturation to express the highly varied phenomena that have c9me about in cuba as a. Here, edna rodriguezmangual challenges this perspective, proposing that cabreras work offers an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of.
Ortizs examination of the impact of sugar and tobacco on cuban society is unquestionably the cornerstone of cuban studies and a key source. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brotherinlaw, cuban anthropologist fernando ortiz, who initiated the study of afrocubans and the concept of transculturation. Transculturation, transliteracy and generative poetics. Click download or read online button to get yakhal inkomo book now.
One of the challenges facing the future of cultural studies is the coherence between conceptual tools and objects of research. This book is the first work in english to reassess. Modifies ortiz, following angel rama, to include all of latin america, not just cuba, as a culture defined and articulated by transculation processes. For this discussion, i have slightly modified the original concept, as developed by fernando.
Transculturation, translation and the poetics of the caribbean. Transculturation definition of transculturation by. Ethnocentrism often takes different forms, as it is a highly personal bias, and manifests itself in countless aspects of culture. The black man rebels, if such a thing is possible and fights. Communicating with transculturation openedition journals. A very civil idea art history, transculturation, and. The concept of transculturation has first been brought up by fernando ortiz in the 1940s and explained the concept of the creation of a new type of culture, which was neither acculturation nor deculturation, but rather dealt with a transition and a merging between interacting cultural groups. While fernando ortizs 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. An analysis of mongane wally serote s yakhal inkomo as it reflects black consciousness ideology. Ortizs understanding of transculturation identified three movements that constituted the process. This new edition includes an introductory essay by. Pdf download marxism and the interpretation of culture free. Transculturation definition is a process of cultural transformation marked by the influx of new culture elements and the loss or alteration of existing ones.