Sunday, January 1, 2012

Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture

MacGaffey, Wyatt, Clifford R. Barnett, Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture, New Haven: HRAF Press, 1962.

From the Author's Preface:
This book ... endeavors to understand the revolution of 1959 as a Cuban phenomenon, examining its local antecedents and its relation to Cuban values and problems, with a minimum of direct reference to its significance in the international scene. Objectivity is a rare virtue, which the authors do not claim; but at least they have consciously sought an independent point of view. Their principal concern has been the pattern of political leadership - its values, goals and techniques; inevitably, many aspects of Cuban life are slighted which others would have stressed.

Reviewed by C. A. M. HENNESSY, University of Exeter, for American Anthropologist, Volume 65, Issue 3.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Nov., 1963), pp. 572-573.

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