This article examines the Cuban mobile cinema campaign in the 1960s as a case study for thinking about the relationship between cinema and mobility. I examine the rhetoric around mobile cinema in Cuban journals such as Cine Cubano, and in the documentary film Por primera vez (For the first time, 1967). I argue that cinema is linked with mobility in two primary ways: as a virtual mobility stimulated by onscreen images, and as a more literal mobility expressed by the transportation of film into remote rural sites of exhibition. These two kinds of mobility reflect the hopes and ambitions of filmmakers and critics energized by the resurgent nationalism of the Cuban revolution, and the excitement of cinema as a “new” technology in rural Cuba.
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Transporting Viewers Beyond the “Hoe and the Machete” The Rhetoric of Mobility in Cuban Mobile Cinema
Nicholas Balaisis
Migrantes y vida pública en Cuba
Estrategias transnacionales de ciudadanos cubanos residentes en Ecuador
Liudmila Morales Alfonso and Liosday Landaburo Sánchez
En 2008 asume oficialmente la presidencia de Cuba Raúl Castro, que había ejercido de manera interina por dos años, luego de que su hermano Fidel le transfiriera el poder. Con el nuevo presidente llegó lo que se ha denominado una “mirada
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 8–29 (22 total)
Assemblage Making, Materiality, and Self in Cuban Palo Monte
Diana Espírito Santo
husband, from whom she is separated, and found, under the image of a Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (Virgin of the Charity of El Cobre), Cuba’s patron saint, a picture of her mother torn in two. This immediately indicated brujería (sorcery) to the woman
State and life in Cuba
Calibrating ideals and realities in a state‐socialist system for food provision
Osmara Mesa Cumbrera, Lázara Yolanda Carrazana Fuentes, Dialvys Rodríguez Hernández, Martin Holbraad, Isabel Reyes Mora, and María Regina Cano Orúe
Based on our collective ethnography of Cuba’s socialist system for the provision of state‐subsidised food, this article explores manners in which the state weaves itself into the fabric of people’s everyday lives in state‐socialist society. Instituted by Cuba’s revolutionary government in the early 1960s, Cuba’s ‘state system for provisioning’ is still today the backbone of household subsistence, propelling individuals into direct daily relations with the state via its neighbourhood‐level network of stores that distribute food catering to citizens’ ‘basic needs’. Our ethnography brings together a series of studies conducted by the members of our team in different parts of Havana, charting the most salient aspects of people’s interaction with the state in this alimentary context. We argue that the state becomes pervasive in people’s daily lives not just because it is present in so much of it, but also as the basic normative premise on which people interpret and evaluate everyday comportments in the interactions food provisioning involves. Life in state socialism involves the constant and intricate comparison of its own realities against the normative ideals the state purports to institute. These ‘vernacular comparisons’ between life and state, as we call them, are the ‘local knowledge’ of state socialism in Cuba.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Nov 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 803–826 (23 total)
"Subaltern Nationalism" and the West Berlin Anti-Authoritarians
Jennifer Ruth Hosek
The West Berlin anti-authoritarians around Rudi Dutschke employed a notion of subaltern nationalism inspired by independence struggles in the global South and particularly by post 1959 Cuba to legitimate their loosely understood plans to recreate West Berlin as a revolutionary island. Responding to Che Guevara's call for many Vietnams, they imagined this Northern metropolis as a Focus spreading socialism of the third way throughout Europe, a conception that united their local and global aims. In focusing on their interpretation of societal changes and structures in Cuba, the anti-authoritarians deemphasized these plans' potential for violence. As a study of West German leftists in transnational context, this article suggests the limitations of confining analyses of their projects within national or Northern paradigms. As a study of the influence of the global South on the North in a non-(post)colonial situation, it suggests that such influence is greater than has heretofore been understood.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 57–81 (24 total)
Intimacy and Belonging in Cuban Tourism and Migration
Valerio Simoni
Building on current anthropological literature on intimacy, this article focuses on the way intimate relations mediate different narratives and experiences of belonging. It explores conflicting interpretations of intimacy as they emerge in Cuban tourism and migration and enable or obstruct different allegiances. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Cubans and tourists in Cuba, and among Cuban migrants in the city of Barcelona (Spain), the article examines the role of intimate relationships in reasserting or transforming lines of commonality and separation between and among Cubans and non-Cubans. Globalized ideals of 'true' intimacy, and their 'fake' or instrumental counterparts, appear as the two main frames of legibility that people deployed to evaluate relationships with friends, lovers and family. We see the competing demands and possibilities to which these interpretative frames responded, and their implications.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 26–41 (16 total)
Healing Practices and Revolution in Socialist Cuba
Marina Gold
More than a state ideology, the concept of 'Revolution' holds multiple meanings for Cubans. A historic moment, the government, the country, the people—Revolution is any one of these and all of them at once. How, then, do people experience a permanent Revolution in their daily lives? The interactions between biomedicine, alternative health practices, and the syncretic system of beliefs known as Santería have important implications for the socialist project of the Revolution. As a central concern of Revolution, health provides a particularly clear example of the interaction between revolutionary ideology and practice. This distinction elucidates the epistemological and experiential complexity of Revolution, providing the Cuban state with a powerful signifier that allows it to adapt to situations of crisis, continuously reinvent itself, and be in a permanent state of Revolution.
Images of Cuba in France in the 1960s: Sartre's 'Ouragan sur le sucre'
Nicholas Hewitt
It is no exaggeration to state that before the Revolution of 1958–1959 Cuba barely impinged on the French national consciousness, with the exception of the occasional role of Paris as host for international conferences on the island’s future. The island’s French colony was never large: indeed, the mausoleum in the Necropólis Cristóbal Cólon in Havana is a touching reminder of a small group, numbering no more than sixty, who, between the 1930s and the early 1960s, maintained a fragile French commercial presence.
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Mar 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 62–73 (12 total)
Cuba represent! Cuban arts, state power, and the making of new revolutionary cultures by Fernandes, Sujatha
JOSHUA TUCKER
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2009
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 126–127 (1 total)
Money and the Morality of Commensuration
Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba
Martin Holbraad
thought that money’s dual character engenders come together for people on the ground—in other words, binary license as an indigenous practice. With ethnographic reference to the dual currency system that emerged after the end of the Soviet era in Cuba, my