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“The first and only comprehensive study of the West Indian people. Ortiz ushered the Caribbean into the thought of the twentieth century and kept it there.” —C. L. R. James

Table of Contents
Introduction to the Duke University Press Edition, by Fernando Coronil ix
Introduction, by Bronislaw Malinowski lvii
By Way of Prologue, By Herminio Portell Vilá lxv
Cuban Counterpoint 3
The Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings of Sugar in America 95
Glossary 311
Index Follows Page 312

Cuban Counterpoint Tobacco and Sugar

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    Publisher: Duke University Press
    Publication Date: 22/02/1995
    ISBN13: 9780822316169, 978-0822316169
    ISBN10: 0822316161

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Trade Review
    “The first and only comprehensive study of the West Indian people. Ortiz ushered the Caribbean into the thought of the twentieth century and kept it there.” —C. L. R. James

    Table of Contents
    Introduction to the Duke University Press Edition, by Fernando Coronil ix
    Introduction, by Bronislaw Malinowski lvii
    By Way of Prologue, By Herminio Portell Vilá lxv
    Cuban Counterpoint 3
    The Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings of Sugar in America 95
    Glossary 311
    Index Follows Page 312

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