Between Two Waters

Departs from the Cuban Fernando Ortiz''s cultural theory of transculturation. Modifies Ortiz following Angel Rama to include all of Latin America not just Cuba as a culture defined and articulated by transculation processes. Chooses four moments - Cabeza de Vaca''s Naufragios extirpation of idolatries the Cuzco School of Painting and JosGe MarGia Arguedas - providing interesting discussions of each relying on existing scholarship. Important here is the project''s ambition and the series of works examined. The triumphalist tone of the proponents of transculturation has lately been dampened by forceful critiques of Rama''s work and the implicit asymmetry of any transculturative situation. Important resource--Handbook of Latin American Studies v. 58.loc.gov/hlas/