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Folkloric Poverty
The &“technocratic revolution&” that ushered in the age of neoliberalism in Mexico under the presidency of Carlos Salinas (1988&–1994) helped create the conditions for, and the constraints on, a resurgence of activism among the indigenous communities of Mexico. This resurgence was given further impetus by the protests in 1992 against the official celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus&’s landing in America and by the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas in 1994. Local, regional, and national indigenous organizations formed to pursue a variety of causes&—cultural, economic, legal, political, and social&—to benefit Indian peoples in all regions of the country. Folkloric...
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Specters of Revolution
The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights. This book reveals that these movements developed after years of seeking legal, consti...
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas. Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not appreciated the pervasive influence of Catholics and Catholicism on postrevolutionary state formation...
Crafting Mexico
After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chávez, the educator Moisés Sáenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts—dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and r...
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
El conocimiento antropológico e histórico sobre Guerrero.
El presente volumen forma parte de una amplia serie de investigaciones sobre Guerrero. Dicha serie es fruto de los esfuerzos de un proyecto para impulsar las investigaciones desde una perspectiva integral, que aborda tanto las poblaciones antiguas del estado, hasta las contemporáneas.
La Revolución en la Montaña de Guerrero. La lucha zapatista 1910-1918
En estas páginas se describen las condiciones socioeconómicas de la región y las rebeliones indígenas durante el porfiriato como antecedentes del levantamiento armado, se habla, desde la óptica del zapatismo, sobre el desarrollo político y militar de la Revolución y se analizan diversos aspectos del discurso y la práctica revolucionarios en esa zona: la cuestión agraria, la organización política y administrativa, los conflictos internos, el financiamiento y las diferencias entre las comunidades.
Cosmovisión y territorialidad en Mesoamérica
Esta investigación resalta la transformación del paisaje, el parentesco cultural, los grupos de linaje, la organización del territorio y el poder, como elementos fundamentales que sirvieron para ordenar y jerarquizar la vida de las sociedades mesoamericanas. El territorio y la cosmovisión como ejes de análisis evidencian que la forma de la organización social dependió de la manera más viable de procesar la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza. Reflexiona asimismo sobre el papel que jugaron las migraciones-peregrinaciones, las cuales pusieron en movimiento mensajes mítico-ancestrales. En la distribución del espacio, en la cerámica y los petrograbados se recreaban nuevos discursos llenos de imágenes plásticas que sirvieron para conformar un sistema visual unificado que reforzaba creencias y valores, así como una cosmovisión que normaba el comportamiento social. Esta cosmovisión se recreaba constantemente con el uso y la transformación del paisaje, en el cual se transmitía el proceso identitario.
