In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep ...

While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences-notably anthropol...

"El Estado mágico" es un estudio de continuidades. A contrapelo de la bibliografía convencional, analiza la trayectoria lineal del rentismo venezolano del siglo XX, desde la constitución del petro-Estado, durante la dictadura de Gómez, pasando por la de Pérez Jiménez y por los gobiernos democráticos que la sucedieron. La gran continuidad que nos define ha tenido y tiene la fuerza de un mito: el Estado como brujo magnánimo capaz de lograr el milagro del progreso. Este mito estalla en pedazo...