Fernando Ortiz Fernández
Cuban writer (1881–1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Cuban scholar. For the Mexican footballer, see Fernando Ortiz Fernández (footballer). For other people, see Fernando Ortiz.
Fernando Ortiz Fernández (16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture. Ortiz coined the term "transculturation," the notion of converging cultures.