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Afterword

Things and The Imponderabilia of Actual Life in Cuba

Bibliographic Data

ID2170402
AuthorsStephan Palmié (0000-0001-7820-3199, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume30
Issue2
Pages311-322
Publication date2021-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2021.1937966
OpenAlexW3204569150
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Following the thematic arc of the essays in this collection, and adding the author’s own reminiscences about fieldwork in Cuba, this afterword reflects on what a material semiotic approach towards a world of things thrown into disarray can reveal about what Malinowski once called “the imponderabilia of actual life” in Cuba during the “Special Period in Times of Peace

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Semiotics · Thematic map · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cuban History and Society · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Philosophy

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    Open Access•Hanna Garth•Current Anthropology•2026

  • The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology

    Alfred Gell•Anthropology, art, and aesthetics•1992

  • The cultural biography of things

    Open Access•Igor Kopytoff•Social Life of Things•1986

  • Futures Past

    Keith Tribe, Reinhart Koselleck•Futures Past•2004

  • Anthropological perspectives on technology

    Michael B Schiffer•Anthropological perspectives on…•2001

  • Argonauts of the western Pacific

    Bronislaw Malinowski•Argonauts of the Western Pacific•2002

  • Introduction

    Open Access•A Appadurai•Social Life of Things•1986

  • Cuba in the Shadow of Change

    Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb•Cuba in the shadow of change•2009

  • Music and RevolutionCultural Change in Socialist Cuba

    Robin Moore•Music and revolution•2006

  • Food in Cuba

    Hanna Garth•Food in Cuba•2020

  • The Ontological Turn

    Open Access•Andrew Pickering•Social Analysis•2017

  • Thinking politics and fashion in 1960s Cuba

    Open Access•María A Cabrera Arús•Theory and Society•2017

  • On Becoming Cuban

    Kenneth Maxwell, Louis A Pérez et al.•Foreign Affairs•1999

  • On Semiotic Ideology

    Open Access•W Keane•Signs and Society•2018

  • Fascinans' or 'tremendum'? Permutations of the state, the body, and the divine in late-twentieth-century Havana

    Open Access•Stephan Palmié•New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…•2004

  • La Comida Mambisa

    Open Access•Shannon Lee Dawdy, Shannon Dawdy•New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…•2002

  • Archivos del Folklore Cubano

    Aurelio M Espinosa•Journal of American Folklore•1927

  • The Mangle of Practice

    Andrew Pickering•Mangle of Practice•1995

  • The Rise and Decline ofLa Yuma

    Open Access•Paul Ryer•The Journal of Latin American and…•2017

  • Rotting Bodies

    W Keane•Current Anthropology•2014

  • How to Make a National Cuisine

    Open Access•A Appadurai•Comparative Studies in Society…•1988

  • Semiotics and the social analysis of material things

    Open Access•W Keane•Language & Communication•2003

Unique citing works1
Citations per year1
Citation span2026 - 2026 (1)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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