Aida Bueno Sarduy
Afro-Cuban anthropologist and documentary filmmaker
About Aida Bueno Sarduy
Aida Bueno Sarduy was a Cuban anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer.
Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy is an Afro-Cuban anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University.
Career Sarduy has a PhD in social anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her PhD thesis examined women's leadership in Afro-descendant religions like the Xangô religion in Recife. From 1999 to 2009 she was a researcher at the Center for Studies on Migration and Racism at Complutense University.
Sarduy's short documentary Guillermina (2019) had its world premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival. In March 2020 the Guatemalan Women's Association invited Sarduy to Madrid to talk about Guillermina.
Films Guillermina. Cuba, 2019. 17 minutes.
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Who was Aida Bueno Sarduy?
Afro-Cuban anthropologist and documentary filmmaker
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Aida Bueno Sarduy was born in Havana.
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Aida Bueno Sarduy was an anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer.
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Aida Bueno Sarduy was Cuban.
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