Identities Experience And Change In Early Mexican Villages

Author : Catharina E. Santasilia,Guy David Hepp,Richard A. Diehl
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813070148

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Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages by Catharina E. Santasilia,Guy David Hepp,Richard A. Diehl Pdf

New perspectives on an important era in Mesoamerican history This volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period (2000 BCE–250 CE), an era that helped produce some of the world’s most renowned complex civilizations. The chapters offer significant data, innovative methodologies, and novel perspectives on Mexican archaeology. Using diverse and non-traditional theoretical approaches, contributors discuss interregional relationships and the exchange of ideas in contexts ranging from the Gulf Coast Olmec region to the site of Tlatilco in Central Mexico to the often-overlooked cultures of the far western states. Their essays explore identity formation, cosmological perspectives, the first hints of social complexity, the underpinnings of Formative period economies, and the sensorial implications of sociocultural change. Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages is one of the first volumes to address the entirety of this rich and complex era and region, offering a new and holistic view. Through a wealth of exciting interpretations from international senior and emerging scholars, this volume shows the strong influence of cultural exchange as well as the compelling individuality of local and regional contexts over two thousand years of history. Contributors: Catharina E. Santasilia | Guy D. Hepp | Richard A. Diehl | Jeffrey P. Blomster | Philip (Flip) J. Arnold III | Patricia Ochoa Castillo | Christopher Beekman | Tatsuya Murakami | Jeffrey S. Brzezinski | Vanessa Monson | Arthur A. Joyce | Sarah B. Barber | Henri Noel Bernard| Sara Ladrón de Guevara| Mayra Manrique| José Luis Ruvalcaba

Author : Andrew Roth-Seneff,Robert V. Kemper,Julie Adkins
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531585

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From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty by Andrew Roth-Seneff,Robert V. Kemper,Julie Adkins Pdf

"In this collective study, the settlement patterns of the last five centuries in Central Western Mexico, language distribution, ritual representation of territoriality, processes of collective identity, and/or the forms of participation and resistance during different phases of Mexican state formation all combine to raise the question of whether the village community constitutes a unique level of the Indo-Mexican experience."

Author : Kurt Peters,Susan Lobo
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585386362

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American Indians and the Urban Experience by Kurt Peters,Susan Lobo Pdf

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed. Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary arts—from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti—will be enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

Author : William B. Taylor
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0804711127

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Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages by William B. Taylor Pdf

This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. In examining the character of village uprisings, typical relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair. Landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole, and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not political reasons. Only when new Spanish encroachments threatened their lands and livelihoods did their grievances flare up in rebellion, and these occasions were numerous but brief. The author bolsters his conclusions with illuminating comparisons with other peasant societies.

Author : Flannery Burke
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700622368

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From Greenwich Village to Taos by Flannery Burke Pdf

They all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw inspiration from New Mexico's mountain desert and "primitive" peoples. As they settled, their quest for the primitive forged a link between "authentic" places and those who called them home. In this first book to consider Dodge and her visitors from a New Mexican perspective, Flannery Burke shows how these cultural mavens drew on modernist concepts of primitivism to construct their personal visions and cultural agendas. In each chapter she presents a place as it took shape for a different individual within Dodge's orbit. From this kaleidoscope of places emerges a vision of what place meant to modernist artists-as well as a narrative of what happened in the real place of New Mexico when visitors decided it was where they belonged. Expanding the picture of early American modernism beyond New York's dominance, she shows that these newcomers believed Taos was the place they had set out to find-and that when Taos failed to meet their expectations, they changed Taos. Throughout, Burke examines the ways notions of primitivism unfolded as Dodge's salon attracted artists of varying ethnicities and the ways that patronage was perceived-by African American writers seeking publication, Anglos seeking "authentic" material, Native American artists seeking patronage, or Nuevomexicanos simply seeking respect. She considers the notion of "competitive primitivism," especially regarding Carl Van Vechten, and offers nuanced analyses of divisions within northern New Mexico's arts communities over land issues and of the ways in which Pueblo Indians spoke on their own behalf. Burke's book offers a portrait of a place as it took shape both aesthetically in the imaginations of Dodge's visitors and materially in the lives of everyday New Mexicans. It clearly shows that no people or places stand outside the modern world-and that when we pretend otherwise, those people and places inevitably suffer.

Author : Jennifer Todd,Lorenzo Cañás Bottos,Nathalie Rougier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317969525

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Political Transformation and National Identity Change by Jennifer Todd,Lorenzo Cañás Bottos,Nathalie Rougier Pdf

The major socio-political changes of the last decades have led to changing ways of being national, changes in the content of national identity if not in the national categories themselves. This comparative social scientific volume takes examples of transitions to democracy (East Europe, Spain) to peace (South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland) and to territorial decentralization (the United Kingdom, France, Spain), showing in each case how socio-political change and identity change have interlocked. It defines a typology of national identity shift, tracing the changing state forms which provoke national identity shift, and analyzing the process of identity change, its motivations and legitimations. Collecting together a wide range of examples, from South Africa to the Czech Republic from the Basque Country to the Mexican and Irish borders; the book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, from world figures in the study of globalization and social identity to young researchers, to provide a much needed theoretical clarification and empirical evidence of types of national identity shift.

Author : Laura Velasco Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816551231

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Mixtec Transnational Identity by Laura Velasco Ortiz Pdf

As Mexican migrants have found new lives in the United States, the appearance of migrant organizations reflects the revitalization of ancestral community life. One example, the Binational Oaxacan Indigenous Front, includes participants from cities along the border and represents diverse organizations of indigenous migrants from Oaxaca. Its creation reflects the vast changes that have taken place in migrants’ lives in less than thirty years. Mixtec Transnational Identity is the first book to describe in detail the emergence of a wide range of transnational indigenous organizations and communities in the greater Mexico–U.S. border region. It documents and analyzes the construction of novel identities formed within transnational contexts that may not conform to identities in either the “sending” or “receiving” societies. Laura Velasco Ortiz investigates groups located on both sides of the border that have maintained strong links with towns and villages in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca in order to understand how this transformation came about. Through a combination of survey, ethnography, and biography, she examines the formation of ethnic identity under the conditions of international migration, giving special attention to the emergence of organizations and their leaders as collective and individual ethnic agents of change. Velasco Ortiz reconstructs the Mixtec experience through three lines of analysis: the formation of organizations beyond the confines of home communities; the emergence of indigenous migrant leaders; and the shaping of ethnic consciousness that assimilates the experiences of a community straddling the border. Her research brings to light the way in which the dispersion of members of different communities is offset by the formation of migrant networks with family and community ties, while the politicization of these networks enables the formation of both hometown associations and transnational pan-ethnic organizations. An important focus of her analysis is gender differentiation within the ethnic community. There has been little research into the relationship between the process of collective agency and the reconstitution of the migrants’ ethnic identity. Mixtec Transnational Identity should stimulate further study of Latino migration to the U.S. border region and its consequences on ethnic identity.

Author : Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351917148

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Mobile People, Mobile Law by Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Pdf

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides new insights into social and political processes through which transnational law is locally appropriated by different actors and presents empirical studies of confrontation, adaptation, vernacularization and hybridization of law due to its transplantation across the borders of national states. The contributors offer insights into modern dynamics of legal change, challenging assumptions about increasing homogeneity in law, with a keen eye for the historical situations in which current legal changes stand.

Author : M. Laura Velasco Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816523274

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Mixtec Transnational Identity by M. Laura Velasco Ortiz Pdf

"Laura Velasco Ortiz investigates groups located on both sides of the border that have maintained strong links with towns and villages in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca in order to understand how this transformation came about. Through a combination of survey, ethnography, and biography, she examines the formation of ethnic identity under the conditions of international migration, giving special attention to the emergence of organizations and their leaders as collective and individual ethnic agents of change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gustavo A. Galindo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X62262

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Integrating a Health Retreat Center Into a Traditional Mexican Rural Village by Gustavo A. Galindo Pdf

Author : Todd Hartch
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506457802

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Understanding World Christianity by Todd Hartch Pdf

Christianity is a global religion! It's an obvious fact, but one often missed or ignored in too many books and conversations. In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but the West, the Understanding World Christianity series offers a fresh, readable orientation to Christianity around the world. Understanding World Christianity is organized geographically, by nation and region. Noted experts, in most cases native to the area of focus, present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the faith as it is lived today. Each volume addresses six key 'intersections' of Christianity in a given context including the historical, denominational, socio-political, geographical, biographical and theological settings. Accessible in tone and brief in length, Understanding World Christianity: Mexico is an ideal introduction for students, mission leaders, and all who wish to know how Christianity is influenced, and is influenced by, the Mexican context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Community development
ISBN : MSU:31293021185875

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Grassroots Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert J. Hoss,Katja Valli Ph.D.,Robert P. Gongloff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798216076322

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Dreams [2 volumes] by Robert J. Hoss,Katja Valli Ph.D.,Robert P. Gongloff Pdf

This two-volume set examines dreams and dreaming from a variety of angles—biological, psychological, and sociocultural—in order to provide readers with a holistic introduction to this fascinating subject. Whether good or bad and whether we remember them or not, each night every one of us dreams. But what biological or psychological function do dreams serve? What do these vivid images and strange storylines mean? How have psychologists, religions, and society at large interpreted dreams, and how can a closer examination of our dreams provide useful insights? Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture presents a holistic view of dreams and the dreaming experience that answers these and many other questions. Divided thematically, this two-volume book examines the complex and often misunderstood subject of dreaming through a variety of lenses. This collection is written by a large and diverse team of experts and edited by leading members of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) but remains an approachable and accessible introduction to this captivating topic for all readers.

Author : Wendy Louise Call
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803235106

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No Word for Welcome by Wendy Louise Call Pdf

Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec?the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico?for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country'sø?little waist,? a place long known for its strong women, spirited marketplaces, and deep sense of independence. She also landed in the middle of a ferocious battle over plans to industrialize the region, where most people still fish, farm, and work in the forests. In the decade that followed her first visit, Call witnessed farmland being paved for new highways, oil spilling into rivers, and forests burning down. Through it all, local people fought to protect their lands and their livelihoods?and their very lives.ø ø Call?s story, No Word for Welcome, invites readers into the homes, classrooms, storefronts, and fishing boats of the isthmus, as well as the mahogany-paneled high-rise offices of those striving to control the region. With timely and invaluable insights into the development battle, Call shows that the people who have suffered most from economic globalization have some of the clearest ideas about how we can all survive it.

Author : Hugh Macgill
Publisher : Creative Education
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000005986919

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A Mexican Village by Hugh Macgill Pdf

Black and white photographs accompany this introduction to the history and way of life in mountainous Villa Hidalgo, a Zapotec Indian village.