Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Index

Index Abakuá, 8, 74, 76, 84, 199n13, 200n24; Palo Monte and Santería distinguished, 56, 58–59, 196n19 “Abriendo Monte” (“Brush Clearing”) (Respall Fina), 181–83, 175 “Absent presence,” 3, 23, 103 “Abuelo, El” (“The Grandfather”) (Guillén), 124–26 Aching, Gerard, 179–80 African American culture, 113, 143–46, 149; literature in, 105–6; place in American context, 143–44, 146–47, 167, 204n3 African art, 19, 20, 64–68, 71 African Diaspora, 43–44, 52, 70, 91 Africanía de la música folklórica de Cuba, La (The Africanness of Cuban Folkloric Music) (Ortiz), 30 African languages, 8, 94; bozal, 8; Congó (Bantu), 8, 169, 206n15; Lucumí (Yoruba), 8, 94, 131, 139, 169 African religious practices, 8, 12, 25–26. See also Abakuá; Afro-Cuban religious practices; Palo Monte; Santería Afro-Cuban culture: as antimodern, 4, 38, 43; attempts at co–optation, 112; to Lydia Cabrera, 31, 33, 52–59, 68, 71, 92, 145–46; to Alejo Carpentier, 63, 66–68, 70–71, 75–79; construction by intellectuals, 1, 34; Cuban writers’ relation to, 17, 20–21, 34, 108; as fundamental to Cuban culture, 1, 38, 52, 147, 149; to Gilberto González y Contreras, 3; and high culture distinguished, 3, 107; as indicator of colonialism, 14–15; mestizaje and, 23–24; to Fernando Ortiz, 30, 31, 42, 68; as source for Cubanness, 1, 15, 25; as unique to Cuba, 4, 20–21, 38, 91, 108. See also Afro-Cuban music; Afro-Cuban religious practices; Afro-Cubans Afrocubanismo (Afro-Cubanism): 2, 112, 143, 189n4; vogue for in 1920s and 1930s Cuba, 2, 12, 35, 107, 111, 149 Afro-Cuban music, 47, 63, 66, 76, 141, 149; bongo drums, 75–76; comparsa, 12, 71, 139–40, 191n21, 204n23; French vogue for, 63, 66–67, 71; repression of, 12, 71, 140, 191n21, 204n23; rumba, 63, 122–23, 140; son, 12, 26, 71, 107–9, 113–18; as source of authenticity, 76, 79 Afro-Cuban religious practices: description of ceremonies, 45–46, 56–57, 77–78, 161, 165, 201n27; different practices distinguished, 56, 58–59, 196n19; importance of el Monte, 33, 54–57, 164–65; official repression of, 12, 47–48, 72, 140, 200n23; relationship between physical and spiritual worlds, 93, 95; as represented by Lydia Cabrera, 25–26, 30, 52–59, 92, 132–33, 146, 171; as represented by Alejo Carpentier, 77–78; as represented by Fernando Ortiz, 25–26, 34, 39–48; role in Cuban society, 52; as source of authenticity, 76, 79; visibility in Cuba since the Special Period, 208n3. See also Abakuá; Lydia Cabrera; Palo Monte; Santería Afro-Cubans: agency, 32, 52, 61; definition and use of term, 189n2; geographical integration, 15; marginalization, 11, 52; middle class, 11; participation in War for Independence, 7–8; presence in national space, 1, 3–4, 71; voting rights, 11. See also Afro-Cuban culture; Afro-Cuban music; Afro-Cuban religious practices 228 / Index Alonso, Carlos, 69,191n26, 192n29, 200n19 Alrededor de nuestra psicología (Concerning Our Psychology) (Márquez Sterling), 12 Anagó (Cabrera), 139 Anderson, Benedict, 5, 13 Anthropology, 16–19, 112, 148, 194n34, 205n10, 206n19; African Americans and, 146–47, 206n18; Alejo Carpentier and, 83; comparative approach, 44; in Cuba, 18, 24, 34, 195n8; Zora Neale Hurston and, 144–45, 153–54; Fernando Ortiz and, 4, 29–30, 34, 43, 52, 60–61, 154, 207n12; in the nineteenth century, 43–44, 195n14, 198n8; relationship to literature, 21, 193n40. See also Ethnography Anti-history, 134–35 Antislavery novels, 5, 99 Archer Straw, Petrine, 19, 65, 199n10 Archive and the Repertoire, The (Taylor) 151–52 Archivos del Folklore Cubano (Archives of Cuban Folklore), 29, 30 Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Malinowski), 148 “Armchair anthropology,” 35, 195n9 Arozarena, Marcelino, 1, 3, 23; “Canción negra sin color” (“Black Song without Color”), 1, 3 Arroyo, Jossianna, 46, 76, 201n27 “Artist-ethnographers,” 2–3, 4, 6, 15 Authenticity, 14, 15, 26, 191n26 Autochthony, 191n26 Autoethnography, 17, 193n36 Avant-garde (movements), 19–20, 26, 193n39; in Cuba, 20–21, 68, 69–71, 106, 108; ethnography and, 66; in Europe 19–20, 65–67, 70–71 (and the primitive, 19–21, 26, 64–67, 70–75); in Latin America, 69–70, 191n25, 193n39 Bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba, Los (Black Dance and Theatre in Cuban Folklore) (Ortiz), 47, 197n24 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 140, 142, 202n1 “Balada de los dos abuelos” (“Ballad of the Two Grandfathers”) (Guillén), 124 Ballagas, Emilio, 2, 31, 111 Bantu. See Congó Barnet...