A materialistic way to account for the continuities and discontinuities of extended work Cuban researcher, writer, politician Fernando Ortiz, is follow trajectory his fetishes. From fetishes Italian Spanish criminal anthropology, national ethnic libraries archives, going through tobacco, sugar, Afro-Cuban drums, objects—things always have a central place in thought writing polygraphist. I will ...

In their search for answers to the relevant theoretical questions on importing knowledge in practical ethics, the authors take an instrumental approach to metaphor. This figure of language allows one to compare language and linguistic variants to bioethics and knowledge. As defined by the dictionary, an 'idiom' is the official language of a nation, a 'dialect' is a regional variant of an idiom,...

The contemporary retranslation and circulation of Lucumí songs for the orishas (deities) among devotees scholars in Cuba inadvertently reproduces both sources methods Ortiz’s earliest linguistic ventures reinforces his enduring influence on popular understandings Santería’s utterances. This article draws research 2018 partnership with a Nigerian priestess, which revealed processes, aspirations,...

Travel writing is an interdisciplinary genre that, in recent times, has become an important area of study. Closely linked to issues of imperialism, diaspora, multiculturalism, nationalism, identity, gender, globalization, colonialism and postcolonialism, it brings into play ideas of transculturation, the idea of the centre and the margin, border crossings, hybridity, location and displacement. ...

As scholars in Caribbean Studies struggle to deconstruct the complicated cultural history of colonialism, visual representations — such as painted imagery, sketches, photographs and lithographs, often accompanied by “word imagery” (i.e. elaborate word descriptions that are meant to stand in for the image) — are increasingly recognised as valid and unique sites that challenge the story of Wester...

Over the centuries, contact zones of transculturation moved from colonised land to Portuguese soil and again that former colonised. Power structures are diffuse as Angola becomes a site ‘co-presence, interaction understandings practices within hierarchised systems dominance’, although Portugal no longer is colonial power. Mapping transformed relationships by using literary analysis sociocogniti...