# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-ortiz-fernandez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:08.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-ortiz-fernandez"
name: "Fernando Ortiz Fernández"
slug: "fernando-ortiz-fernandez"
description: "Fernando Ortiz Fernández was a Cuban lawyer, 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 has been called the \"third discoverer of Cuba\", after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt. A title first given to him by his secretary Rubén Martínez Villena and later echoed and published by Juan Marinello. Ortiz is widely recognized as a pioneering figure in postcolonial Latin American thought, as well as a foundational voice in African American anthropology. One of Ortiz's most influential contributions is his coining of the term \"transculturation,\" which describes the complex process of cultural convergence and exchange."
tagline: "Cuban writer (1881–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1919%2C_Cubans_of_to-day%2C_Fernando_Ortiz_y_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-07-16"
deathDate: "1969-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.49852666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump