The Cuban factors of humanity
Reproductive biology, historical ontology and the metapragmatics of race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2401908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephan Palmié (0000-0001-7820-3199, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499616633031 |
| OpenAlex | W2295824091 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
Ostensibly a book written with a view towards publicly promulgating an anti-racist agenda by synthesizing a vast body of mid-20th-century biological and genetic science, Fernando Ortiz's El engaño de las razas (1946) remains one his least commented-upon works. Eclipsed in its scholarly reception (both nationally and internationally) by its immediate predecessor, El contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (1940) and its English translation (1946), El engaño de las razas also appears to have been shadowed by (or simply assimilated into) the spate of post-Second World War anthropological anti-racist pronouncements culminating in the 1951 UNESCO Declaration Against Racism. However, paying close attention to Ortiz's analytical and rhetorical strategies reveals that El engaño is by no means a mere anti-racist tract in the guise of a (characteristically learned and vociferously poetic) Latin American ensayo. As I will argue, the text merits our attention today not only because it refracted and subjected a larger, international anthropological agenda of the time to a local perspective, but also because its analytical tropology - arguably - only entered anthropological theorizing about human biology, heredity, and sociality under the sign of relationality from the 1990s onward. I suggest that in outlining a metapragmatic ethics and politics of metaphor Ortiz also anticipated a de-stabilization of representationalist accounts of 'race' that goes well beyond social constructionism
Ethnology · Humanities · Humanity · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society
Essays in Cuban Intellectual History
Historical Ontology
Futures Past
Knowledge and social imagery
Models and Metaphors
The American Negro
The American Negro, A Study in Racial Crossing.
Race
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
Cuban Counterpoints
Las olas embravecidas. La antropología propugnada en El engaño de las razas de Fernando Ortiz
Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology
Theory from the South
We Have Never Been Modern
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Glosario de Afronegrismos
Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Body Multiple
The Cooking of History
Cutting the Network
The ajiaco in Cuba and beyond
Futures Past
Semiotic Anthropology
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
Semiotics and the social analysis of material things
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |