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Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power in Mexico
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, many countries in Latin America freed themselves from the burden of their authoritarian pasts and developed democratic political systems. At the same time, they began a process of shifting many governmental responsibilities from the national to the state and local levels. Much has been written about how decentralization has fostered democratization, but informal power relationships inherited from the past have complicated the ways in which citizens voice their concerns and have undermined the accountability of elected officials. In this book, Andrew Selee seeks to illuminate the complex linkages between informal and formal power by comparing how they worked in three Mexican cities. The process of decentralization is shown to have been intermediated by existing spheres of political influence, which in turn helped determine how much the institution of multiparty democracy in the country could succeed in bringing democracy “closer to home.”
Transcontinental Dialogues
Transcontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of Indigenous rights, advocacy, and action research. These engaged anthropologists explore how obligations manifest in differently situated alliances, how they respond to such obligations, and the consequences for anthropological practice and action. This volume presents a set of pieces that do not take the usual political or geographic paradigms as their starting point; instead, the particular dialogues from the margins presented in this book arise from a rejection of the geographic hierarchization of knowledge in which the Global South co...
Sorcery in Mesoamerica
Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present. While the topic of sorcery and witchcraft in anthropology is well developed in other areas of the world, it has received little academic attention in Mexico and Central America until now. In each chapter, preeminent scholars of ritual and belief ask very different questions about what exactly sorcery is in Mesoamerica. Contributors consider linguistic and visual aspects of sorcery and witchcraft, such as the terminology in Aztec semantic...
Indigenous Cosmolectics
Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacon considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics, a philosophy originally grounded in pre-Columbian sacred conceptions of the cosmos, time, and place, and now exp...
La lengua mixteca en la montaña de Guerrero: la identidad de un pueblo migrante
He aquí el resultado de más de veinte años de investigación sobre el tu’un savi: la lengua mixteca, “Lengua de la Lluvia”. Comenzó por un trabajo de campo en la Montaña de Guerrero, México, durante siete años. Continuó adaptando los avances de la Lingüística (simplicidad, cognición, argumentos, relevancia, discurso) al servicio de una comprensión más profunda del tu’un savi. Explora la idiosincrasia de una cultura amenazada de muerte, a la vez que evidencia las constantes del Lenguaje en cualquier ser humano. Joaquín J. Martínez Sánchez es doctor en Literatura Comparada por la Universidad de Alicante, profesor, cooperante y lingüista. Participa en un proyecto de revitalización del tu’un savi, gracias a las instituciones creadas de forma autogestionaria por los propios na savi.
Educación, colonización y rebeldía
La educación en México está en crisis. Los estudiantes no aprenden lo que se supone deben saber para desempeñarse en sociedad, la ética de los maestros no corresponde a su magisterio, el gobierno de la educación básica está colonizado por fieles del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) y hay una percepción generalizada de que en el sector educativo reina una corrupción aguda.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
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