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An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.
Gothic style and contemporary architecture worldwide Although largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium. Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both as a distinct variation and as a competitor to recognized modern styles. The book’s chapters critically discuss Gothic’s various manifestations over the past century, describing and illustrating approaches from Gothic Revival living traditions in the former British Empire and original Gothic appropriation in Lati...
El indigenismo es un tema pendiente de discutir y re pensar bajo nuevas preguntas en las aulas de las universidades. El indigenismo mexicano ha sido una de las políticas del Estado posrevolucionario más interesantes del siglo XX en el mundo entero, que empoderó a los campesinos e indígenas de todo el país, con una reforma agraria de por medio y el derecho a la tierra, entre 1948 y 1983. Este libro nos brinda una mirada interior a la experiencia de vida de un antropólogo que trabajó comprometido con este indigenismo indianizador y fue uno de sus protagonistas más extremos: Salomón Nahmad Sittón. Con su mirada y su perspectiva vamos tejiendo los hilos de la narración del quehacer de...
In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest. Supplements devoted to Archaeology, Linguistics, Literatures, Ethnohistory, and Epigraphy have appeared to date. In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades. They examine how research agendas have developed in relationship to broader interests in the field and the ways in which the anthropology of the region has responded to the sociopolitical and economic policies of Mexico and Guatemala. Most importantly, they focus on the changing conditions of life of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. This volume thus offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years.
Los textos incluidos en este número del Boletín del Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales, A. C. responden a la llamada de dialogar sobre los contornos de la antropología mexicana en la actualidad: sus prácticas, preocupaciones teóricas y debates disciplinares. La conversación parte de investigaciones antropológicas llevadas a cabo en contextos distintos, no obstante, las y los autores encuentran lugares comunes; entre ellos, una serie de reflexiones sobre la antropología y los términos estrechamente relacionados (y a veces confundidos): trabajo de campo y etnografía. Los textos incluidos en este número del Boletín del Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales, A. C. responden a la llamada de dialogar sobre los contornos de la antropología mexicana en la actualidad: sus prácticas, preocupaciones teóricas y debates disciplinares. La conversación parte de investigaciones antropológicas llevadas a cabo en contextos distintos, no obstante, las y los autores encuentran lugares comunes; entre ellos, una serie de reflexiones sobre la antropología y los términos estrechamente relacionados (y a veces confundidos): trabajo de campo y etnografía.
Los trabajos compilados recogen los esfuerzos de excelencia que distintos estudiosos han trabajado a lo largo de años, desde varias disciplinas y perspectivas, gracias a lo cual el lector podrá adentrarse y sumergirse en las profundidades de un conocimiento sobre esa vasta región conocida como "La Huasteca".
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