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Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

Wirtz, Kristina

NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2011, Vol.85 (1/2), p.109-112 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Leiden: KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

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  • Título:
    Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba
  • Autor: Wirtz, Kristina
  • Assuntos: 20th century ; Authorship ; Editing ; English ; Ethnography ; Familiarity ; Field study ; Literature ; Migrants ; Religion ; Researchers ; Spanish ; Syntax ; Traditions
  • É parte de: NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2011, Vol.85 (1/2), p.109-112
  • Descrição: While she goes further than most authors in historicizing each one and showing their interconnections, the formula is stale and runs the risk of reifying each as an "African tradition" (in Espiritismo's case, covertly so) and focusing undue attention on questions of taxonomy, instead of showing the mutual co-construction of these "traditions" in the past and present (and the role of folklorists and ethnographers in delineating what the traditions are), when many of the practices are in fact combined and juxtaposed in significant ways. [...]her concern with excavating the deep origins of each tradition sometimes gets in the way, as with her claim that Vodú practiced in Cuba's Oriente region derives from late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slaves from Saint Domingue/Haiti rather than from early twentieth-century Haitian labor migrants, who are not even mentioned. In any event, I had to fall back on my own experience in Cuba and familiarity with the literature cited to evaluate her claims, rather than being provided with evidence in support of her assertions. [...]the theoretical apparatus of the book is thin, relying heavily upon Fernando Ortiz's concept of transculturation as a psychocultural process that permitted "survivals" of a general African worldview. [...]far more troubling, José Millet has accused Dodson of intellectual theft because she removed him from co-authorship and failed to acknowledge contributions by other Cuban researchers.1 As evidence, he has provided what appears to be a very similar book manuscript accepted for publication at the University of Florida Press and listing Dodson and Millet as co-authors.2 One additional criticism I regret to make is that this book would have benefited from much more rigorous copy-editing, as errors in Spanish and English were distracting and syntax was occasionally stretched to its limits.
  • Editor: Leiden: KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
  • Idioma: Inglês
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