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Paperback Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity Book

ISBN: 0807855545

ISBN13: 9780807855546

Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity

(Part of the Envisioning Cuba Series)

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Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this perspective, proposing...

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