Tepoztlan, a Mexican Village

Tepoztlan, a Mexican Village PDF Author: Robert Redfield
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Tepoztlan, a Mexican Village

Tepoztlan, a Mexican Village PDF Author: Robert Redfield
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Life in a Mexican Village

Life in a Mexican Village PDF Author: Oscar Lewis
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Tepoztlan

Tepoztlan PDF Author: Oscar Lewis
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN: 9780030060502
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico

Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico PDF Author: Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816632893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How it does so, how it develops, is a historical process-a process that Claudio Lomnitz exposes and investigates in this book, which develops a distinct view of the cultural politics of nation building in Mexico. Lomnitz highlights the varied, evolving, and often conflicting efforts that have been made by Mexicans over the past two centuries to imagine, organize, represent, and know their country, its relations with the wider world, and its internal differences and inequalities. Firmly based on particulars and committed to the specificity of such thinking, this book also has broad implications for how a theoretically informed history can and should be done. An exploration of Mexican national space by way of an analysis of nationalism, the public sphere, and knowledge production, Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico brings an original perspective to the dynamics of national cultural production on the periphery. Its blending of theoretical innovation, historical inquiry, and critical engagement provides a new model for the writing of history and anthropology in contemporary Mexico and beyond. Public Worlds Series, volume 9

Beyond Nootka

Beyond Nootka PDF Author: Lindsay John Elms
Publisher: Courtenay, B.C. : Misthorn Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Health, Culture, and Community

Health, Culture, and Community PDF Author: Benjamin D. Paul
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610444426
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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This casebook documents public reactions to health programs and health situations in sixteen widely differing communities of the world. Some of the studies record successes, others failures. Of interest to anyone concerned with preventive medicine, public health, community betterment, or cultural problems involving peoples of different backgrounds and beliefs.

Without History

Without History PDF Author: Jose Rabasa
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082297374X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a primarily indigenous group that has declared war on the state of Mexico. The massacre has been attributed to a paramilitary group composed of ordinary citizens acting on their own, although eyewitnesses claim the attack was planned ahead of time and that the Mexican government was complicit.In Without History, Jose Rabasa contrasts indigenous accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with state attempts to frame the past, control subaltern populations, and legitimatize its own authority. Rabasa offers new interpretations of the meaning of history from indigenous perspectives and develops the concept of a communal temporality that is not limited by time, but rather exists within the individual, community, and culture as a living knowledge that links both past and present. Due to a disconnection between indigenous and state accounts as well as the lack of archival materials (many of which were destroyed by missionaries), the indigenous remain outside of, or without, history, according to most of Western discourse. The continued practice of redefining native history perpetuates the subalternization of that history, and maintains the specter of fabrication over reality.Rabasa recalls the works of Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, as well as contemporary south Asian subalternists Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, among others. He incorporates their conceptions of communality, insurgency, resistance to hegemonic governments, and the creation of autonomous spaces as strategies employed by indigenous groups around the globe, but goes further in defining these strategies as millennial and deeply rooted in Mesoamerican antiquity. For Rabasa, these methods and the continuum of ancient indigenous consciousness are evidenced in present day events such as the Zapatista insurrection.

The School the Aztec Eagles Built

The School the Aztec Eagles Built PDF Author: Dorinda Makanaōnalani Stagner Nicholson
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781600604409
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A photo-illustrated book about the Aztec Eagles, Mexico's World War II Air Force squadron interwoven with the story of Sergeant Angel Bocanegra, whose service was rewarded with the building of a school in his village.

Exits from the Labyrinth

Exits from the Labyrinth PDF Author: Claudio Lomnitz-Adler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520077881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Review: "Scholarly contribution to the understanding of national culture. First part studies cultural production and ideology in Morelos and in the Huasteca Potosina. Second part focuses on history of legitimacy and charisma in Mexican politics, and relationship between the national community and racial ideology. Based on extensive field work and participant observation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Que Vivan Los Tamales!

Que Vivan Los Tamales! PDF Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318732
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present and relates cuisine to the formation of national identity. The metate and mano, used by women for grinding corn and chiles since pre-Columbian times, remained essential to preparing such Mexican foods as tamales, tortillas, and mole poblano well into the twentieth century. Part of the ongoing effort by intellectuals and political leaders to Europeanize Mexico was an attempt to replace corn with wheat. But native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology and what it meant to be authentically Mexican after 1940, when a growing urban middle class appropriated the popular native foods of the lower class and proclaimed them as national cuisine.