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Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica
This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its unique capacity to link local practices to global processes. To fill this gap, the authors weigh the material manifestations of the colonial and postcolonial trajectory in light of local, regional, and global historical processes that have unfolded over the last five hundred years. Research on a suite of issues—economic history, production of commodities, agrarian change, resistance, religious shifts, and sociocultural identity—demonstrates that the often shocking patterns observed today are historically contingent and culturally mediated, and therefore explainable. This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.
Beautiful Politics of Music
Vargas-Cetina, a native Yucatecan and trova musician, offers ethnographic insight into the local music scene. With family connections, she embedded herself as a trovadora, and her fieldwork--singing, playing the guitar in a trova group, and extensively researching the genre and talking with fellow enthusiasts and experts--ensued. Trova, like other types of artistic endeavors, is the result of collaboration and social milieu. She describes the dedicated trova clubs, cultural institutions, the Yucatecan economy of agricultural exports, and identity politics that helped the music come about and have maintained it today. --Publisher description.
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn
The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from “Mexicans.” This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the author argues that Yucatecan gastronomy has been created and promoted in an effort to affirm the identity of a regional people and to oppose the hegemonic force of central Mexican cultural icons and forms. In particular, Yucatecan gastronomy counters the homogenizing drive of a national cuisine based on dominant central Mexican appetencies and defies the image of Mexican national cuisine as rooted ...
Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food
This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices.
Rebellion Now and Forever
This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now and Forever looks at Yucatán's famous Caste War from the perspective of the vast majority of Hispanics and Maya peasants who did not join in the great ethnic rebellion of 1847. It shows how the history of nonrebel territory was as dramatic and as violent as the front lines of the Caste War, and of greater significance for the larger evolution of Mexican society. The work explores political violence not merely as a method and process, but also as a molder of subsequent institutions and practices.
Boletín Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales 2013
El Boletín 2013, tercero de la nueva época editorial del Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales, A.C. lleva por título Antropología y prácticas profesionales diversas. Este esfuerzo se realiza en atención a la idea y preocupación de hacer visible la diversidad de campos en los que los antropólogos nos desempeñamos profesionalmente y que son poco conocidos por el gremio o ignorados por representar una aparente minoría. Mostrar algunos de estos campos profesionales es un primer paso para identificarlos, por lo que los artículos centrales de este número del Boletín describen en qué consisten y reflexionan sobre los retos que enfrentan los antropólogos en ellos, así como ...
La península de Yucatán en la correspondencia consular de Francia en Campeche, 1832-1850
Este libro parte del análisis de la epistolar oficial de la legación francesa establecida en el puerto de Campeche entre 1832 y 1850, cuya circunscripción abarcaba toda la península de Yucatán. El corpus de más de 400 cartas escritas por el primer agente comercial, M. Renon (1832-1833) y por los tres cónsules nombrados en el puerto campechano: Maurice d ́Hauterive (1835-1837), Jean Antoine Marie Faramond (1838-1839), Athanase Laisné de Villevêque (1840-1850), nos sumerge en la comprensión de una península envuelta en conflictos bélicos: la guerra de independencia de Texas en 1836 que afectó sus costas, los intentos de separación de 1839 y 1842, la guerra contra Francia en 1838...
The Future Role of the Ejido in Rural Mexico
This volume explores how reforms to Mexico's agrarian legislation changed the ejido's traditional role as the principal economic and political agent in the countryside.
