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Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Kristina Wirtz
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Description for Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Paperback. Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere. In this book, the author examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. Num Pages: 344 pages, 56 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santeria saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also investigates how this process operates at different spatial and temporal scales - from the immediate present to the imagined past, from the barrio to the socialist state. Wirtz analyzes a variety of performances ... Read more
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santeria saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also investigates how this process operates at different spatial and temporal scales - from the immediate present to the imagined past, from the barrio to the socialist state. Wirtz analyzes a variety of performances ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226119052
SKU
V9780226119052
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About Kristina Wirtz
Kristina Wirtz is associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria.
Reviews for Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
"Performing Afro-Cuba is a remarkable achievement. To put Wirtz's argument in a nutshell would be to do a gross injustice to her sophisticated-and often quite elegant-exposition. She is simply the smartest and theoretically most sophisticated anthropologist doing research in Cuba these days. But aside from her contribution to the regionalist literature, the real value of her work is that it ... Read more