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The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities
Recent realizations that prehispanic cities in Mesoamerica were fundamentally different from western cities of the same period have led to increasing examination of the neighborhood as an intermediate unit at the heart of prehispanic urbanization. This book addresses the subject of neighborhoods in archaeology as analytical units between households and whole settlements. The contributions gathered here provide fieldwork data to document the existence of sociopolitically distinct neighborhoods within ancient Mesoamerican settlements, building upon recent advances in multi-scale archaeological studies of these communities. Chapters illustrate the cultural variation across Mesoamerica, includin...
The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires
The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century. The period saw the emergence of the modern political system with true appeals to the voters, tremendous urban growth, and the solidification of a barrio identity. Historian Joel Horowitz examines four types of organizations: football clubs, bibliotecas populares (popular libraries), sociedades de fomento (development societies that pushed for barrio improvements), and universidades populares (popular universities that provided practical training beyond the primary school level). All four types be...
Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina
During the 1980s in Argentina, what had hitherto seemed an inexpungible Catholic dominion gave way to dozens of different forms of religious expression. Many were latent forms which blossomed in that decade by winning the media and the man and woman in the street. Pentacostalism flourished the most, as it has in other parts of Latin America. Why did this happen? What economic, political, cultural, social and religious factors explain this phenomenon? As an ethnographic study, this book probes answers to these questions by illustrating how people of a particular neighborhood of Buenos Aires have come to choose their denomination. Choices, however, are not disconnected from the way society as a whole functions. Thus, the stories and the neighborhood are situated within a global context. This specific approach, which is done by drawing on the theory of practice and the concept of social identity, provides insights that challenge some of the more widely accepted theories explaining the growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America, especially the perceptions of Martin, Stoll and Brusco concerning Latin American culture and social dynamics.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, 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...
Music in Latin American Culture
"Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions provides an in-depth look at the diverse musical cultures of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean in a format geared for the undergraduate. Each chapter, written by an expert in the field, focuses on a specific musical culture while offering students a solid foundation for further study. Authors present the community, its history, common dialect, traditions, and newer forms of musical expression. Music rituals, instrument manufacturing processes, and improvisational techniques all come alive through the authors' own observations of the cultures they have studied firsthand." --
Linked Data Management
Linked Data Management presents techniques for querying and managing Linked Data that is available on today's Web. The book shows how the abundance of Linked Data can serve as fertile ground for research and commercial applications.The text focuses on aspects of managing large-scale collections of Linked Data. It offers a detailed introduction to L
El barrio
“Este trabajo se inscribe en el marco de un análisis relacional de la pobreza. Se trata de una perspectiva fructífera, en la medida en que posibilita la construcción de herramientas de abordaje del problema en todas sus dimensiones, en el contexto de la reproducción de la sociedad en su conjunto y de sus mecanismos de dominación. Además, supone no considerar la pobreza como un concepto fundamentalmente descriptivo, sino que implica asumir las críticas a las distintas aproximaciones del fenómeno en términos de marginalidad. Este enfoque, así mismo, busca analizar las estrategias que ponen en marcha a las familias pobres a partir de lo que tienen y no tanto de lo que les falta, desde los recursos, más que desde las carencias”.Alicia Gutiérrez
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.
Local and Global Understandings of Creativities
In music making “in company”, the protagonists have to follow the rules of interaction and create the cohesion of “being together”. At the same time, they try to promote personal goals that depend on specific personal treasure troves of experience. These are continuously being modified also as a result of the exchange between individuals. The perspective of the “individuals in company” leads the emphasis of the investigations to the ways in which the acts of performance, interpretation and local discourse give shape to creative processes in multipart music making and to the definition of the individual, collective and collaborative dimensions in this context. Focusing on the “c...
Ciudades (in)descifrables
Aventurarse en la tarea de comprender la complejidad creciente de la vida urbana requiere, necesariamente, nuevos abordajes transversales y disruptivos. El tratamiento de la ciudad desde los imaginarios y representaciones sociales de lo urbano constituye una postura teórica y metodológica, la cual permite identificar y descifrar las predisposiciones a la reproducción y las tendencias que anuncian formas de producción innovadoras de la ciudad y la vida urbana.
