Rachel Price, member of the editorial board of JLACS; the magazine’s executive editor, Isis Sadek; the guest editor of the dossier “Material Turn in Cuban Studies”, María A. Cabrera Arús; and two of the authors, Jacqueline Loss and Michael Bustamante, discussed the highlights of this special issue on Cuban material culture (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies vol. 30, no. 2). What are the implications of the recent shift towards material culture in Cuban studies? Could material culture studies help fill some of the analytical gaps produced by the lack of access to some archives? The debate revolved around the…