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La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes

Author : Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes written by Olga Nájera-Ramírez and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, for three days in September, the citizens of Jocotan, an ancient indigenous community near Guadalajara, Mexico, symbolically reenact the Spanish conquest of Mexico in mock battles between Santiago, the patron saint of Spain, and the Tastoanes, the leaders of the indigenous resistance. Paradoxically, the Jocotenos honor Santiago, their special protector, and incorporate both Christian and indigenous practices and beliefs in their fiesta. Employing the concept of hegemony, the author explores what the festival means culturally to the community and shows how it enables Jocotenos to adapt to Christianity and to resist the social order it symbolizes. Through the festival, Jocotenos address their collective identity, the preservation of their folk culture, and their relationship to the social-political power structure of Jocotan. Students of Mexican culture and of syncretic religions worldwide will find this study stimulating and informative.

Celebrating Latino Folklore [3 volumes]

Author : María Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Latino Folklore [3 volumes] written by María Herrera-Sobek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 1261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. Latino folklore is a fun and fascinating subject to many Americans, regardless of ethnicity. Interest in—and celebration of—Latin traditions such as Día de los Muertos in the United States is becoming more common outside of Latino populations. Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions provides a broad and comprehensive collection of descriptive information regarding all the genres of Latino folklore in the United States, covering the traditions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Spain, or Latin America. The encyclopedia surveys all manner of topics and subject matter related to Latino folklore, covering the oral traditions and cultural heritage of Latin Americans from riddles and dance to food and clothing. It covers the folklore of 21 Latin American countries as these traditions have been transmitted to the United States, documenting how cultures interweave to enrich each other and create a unique tapestry within the melting pot of the United States.

The Festive State

Author : David M. Guss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924864
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Festive State written by David M. Guss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings. Guss investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined. In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day of the Monkey, the mestizo ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural policies and products of a British multinational tobacco corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating different cultural interests.

El Niño Fidencio and the Fidencistas

Author : Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524612332
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book El Niño Fidencio and the Fidencistas written by Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Nio Fidencio and the Fidencistas: Folk Religion on the U.S.-Mexican Borderland, is an biographical ethnography examining the life of Mexicos most famous folk healer as well as the folk religious healing cult that has followed him since his death in 1938. Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo, the transmigrational patterns of Mexicans in the United States as well as Latino/a social psychology and importance of folk beliefs and practices in their daily lives. In 2009, Zavaletas lifetime of research supporting Mexican nationals living abroad, Mexicanos en el Extranjero earned him the prestigious Ohtli, a Nahuatl(Aztec) word meaning pathfinder. The Ohtli is regarded as the highest community-minded awards which the Republic of Mexico bestows to non-Mexican citizens for their service to Mexico. In 2010, Zavaleta was appointed by President Obama to the Good Neighbor Environmental Commission of the EPA which reports directly to the President and dedicated to observing and analyzing ongoing events within the cross-border eco-systems of the United States-Mexico borderlands. Zavaleta studied anthropology at The University of Texas a Austin completing a doctoral degree in 1976. For the past 40 years he has been a faculty member and administrator at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Zavaleta retired in 2016 and lives in Brownsville, Texas.

Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century

Author : Jay Sokolovsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315426714
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century written by Jay Sokolovsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative, interactive ethnography employs a range of media to explore the lives of the residents of a village set in the rugged mountains overlooking Mexico City, focusing on how these villagers react and adapt to a rapidly globalized world. Students can view the evolving life of San Jerónimo Amanalco and its region over the past four decades through print, web-embedded, and e-reader enabled resources. This book-offers a multimedia approach, including archival images and documents, original photographs, audio recordings, and extensive video;-incorporates ethnographic information gathered during the author’s four decades of research in the region;-includes community members’ responses to the author’s research through social media, email, and video-taped comments.

Journal of American Folk-lore

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Choreographing Mexico

Author : Manuel R. Cuellar
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477325182
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Mexico written by Manuel R. Cuellar and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, Dance Studies Association The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio Díaz, the subsequent revolution, and the creation of the new state. Amid the upheaval, Mexican dance emerged as a key arena of contestation regarding what it meant to be Mexican. Through an analysis of written, photographic, choreographic, and cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico, Choreographing Mexico examines how bodies in motion both performed and critiqued the nation. Manuel Cuellar details the integration of Indigenous and regional dance styles into centennial celebrations, civic festivals, and popular films. Much of the time, this was a top-down affair, with cultural elites seeking to legitimate a hegemonic national character by incorporating traces of indigeneity. Yet dancers also used their moving bodies to challenge the official image of a Mexico full of manly vigor and free from racial and ethnic divisions. At home and abroad, dancers made nuanced articulations of female, Indigenous, Black, and even queer renditions of the nation. Cuellar reminds us of the ongoing political significance of movement and embodied experience, as folklórico maintains an important and still-contested place in Mexican and Mexican American identity today.

Performance Theories in Education

Author : Bryant Keith Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113561685X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Performance Theories in Education written by Bryant Keith Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity breaks new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education. It is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and pragmatic lens, can be used to view the processes, procedures, and politics of education. The conceptual framework of the volume is the editors' argument that performance and performativity help to locate and describe repetitive actions plotted within grids of power relationships and social norms that comprise the context of education and schooling. The book brings together performance studies and education researchers, teachers, and scholars to investigate such topics as: *the relationship between performance and performativity in pedagogical practice; *the nature and impact of performing identities in varying contexts; *cultural and community configurations that fall under the umbrella of teaching, education, and schooling; and *the hot button issues of educational policies and reform as performances. With the aim of developing a clearer understanding of the effect, affect, and role of performance in education, the volume provides a crucial starting point for discourse among theorists and teacher practitioners who are interested in understanding and acknowledging the politics of performance and the practices of performative social identities that always and already intervene in the educational endeavor.

The Archive and the Repertoire

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822331230
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Archive and the Repertoire written by Diana Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div

Steel Chair to the Head

Author : Nicholas Sammond
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822334380
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Steel Chair to the Head written by Nicholas Sammond and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling.

Report of State Librarian

Author : Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Report of State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

Music from Behind the Bridge

Author : Shannon Dudley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195175476
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Music from Behind the Bridge written by Shannon Dudley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music from behind the Bridge' tells the story of the steelband a symbol of Trinidadian culture, from the point of view of musicians who overcame disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition.

Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The ... Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The ... Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania

Author : Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World of Lucha Libre

Author : Heather Levi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391473
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The World of Lucha Libre written by Heather Levi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, and reporters; she also apprenticed with a retired luchador (wrestler). Drawing on her insider’s perspective, she explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. Levi argues that the broad appeal of lucha libre lies in its capacity to stage contradictions at the heart of Mexican national identity: between the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, ritual and parody, machismo and feminism, politics and spectacle. Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport, modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles, and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights the history of the sport’s engagement with television: it was televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991. Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing political discourse. The World of Lucha Libre shows how a sport imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.