Fernando Ortiz is one of the most transcendental personalities
in Latin America and the most prominent ethnologist and anthropologist
in Cuba. Along his large and highly creative life, he wrote more
than one hundred books on such issues as ethnology, sociology, linguistic
and musicology.
Among these books we can highlight: Contrapunteo
cubano del tabaco y el azúcar, Los
negros curros, Los
negros brujos, Los
negros esclavos, Etnia
y Sociedad, Entre
cubanos. Psicología tropical, El
ékue, Los
tambores ararás. La conga, El
acheré y los chekeré, Las
maracas, Los
tambores batá, La
marímbula, La
maruga. El rallo, El
ekón, La
africanía de la música folclórica cubana,
among others.
 We
are proudly recommending ''Brujas
e Inquisidores'' (Witches and Inquisitors), a Fernando Ortiz's
as-yet-unpublished work. The author is proposing here a bundle of
crossed viewpoints and theological, historical and anthropological
opinions about the catholic religion; he points out here the interaction
and the differences between the so-called ''Brujeria of Whites''
and ''Brujeria of Blacks''. Through a brief and synthetic overview,
this book is proving how in the whites` religion, sheltered by its
theology and priesthood, there were also grotesque myths, barbarian
rites, heinous immoralities and profane cruelties. Just check this
new incorporation to our online Books
Shop.
Historia de una pelea cubana contra los demonios (1959);
La santería y la brujería de los blancos (2000);
y Brujas e inquisidores, conform the trilogy "Defensa
Póstuma de un inquisidor cubano", penned by Fernando
Ortiz to show the reader his singular way of interpreting the universal
character of culture.
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