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Body Image and the Ambivalence of Sugar as Heritage Among Cuban Dancers

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The article looks at vernacular understandings of sugar as Cuban heritage in light of ongoing processes of westernization of Cuban foodways and body image. In doing so, I employ the notion of ‘agnostic heritage’ (Brumann, 2014) and the proposition of a ‘third historicity.’ The latter term includes the analysis of people’s heritage experiences and beliefs, focusing on changes in local understandings of sugar as heritage, its ambivalence, and, at times, even stigmatization in relation to newly emerging canons and ideals governing body image. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among female dancers in Havana’s private schools over the course of approximately ten months from 2015 to 2018.

Source: Revista del CESLA International Latin American Studies Review

DOI: 10.36551/2081-1160.2019.24.53-73

Author: Ruxandra Ana

Institution: University of Warsaw

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Identity and Heritage

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Narodowym Centrum Nauki

OpenAlex ID: W3006579728

FWCI: 3.558

Cites: 38

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10