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Waking the Dictator
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Waking the Dictator

Waking the Dictator is a study of federalism in late nineteenth century Veracruz State. It is also a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. This study is the first modern, comprehensive, and analytical history of the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution in Veracruz.

The Shaman’s Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Shaman’s Mirror

Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins as sacred offerings to their transformation into commerc...

Theatre and Cartographies of Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Theatre and Cartographies of Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-09
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

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Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6

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.

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6

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 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 offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years.

Religious Culture in Modern Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Religious Culture in Modern Mexico

This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed since Mexican independence. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of religiosity in Mexico in the context of an increasingly secular state, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in Latin American history and religion.

Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico offers an exploration of miracles, petitionary devotion, and ex votos, based on extensive fieldwork in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. A sequel to Graziano's Culture of Devotion (2006), this study contributes to the fields of material religion and psychology of religion.

Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation

The Huichol (Wixarika) people claim a vast expanse of Mexico’s western Sierra Madre and northern highlands as a territory called kiekari, which includes parts of the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí. This territory forms the heart of their economic and spiritual lives. But indigenous land struggle is a central fact of Mexican history, and in this fascinating new work Paul Liffman expands our understanding of it. Drawing on contemporary anthropological theory, he explains how Huichols assert their sovereign rights to collectively own the 1,500 square miles they inhabit and to practice rituals across the 35,000 square miles where their access is challenged...

Newsletter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64
Dolor crónico
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 400

Dolor crónico

Este libro desarrolla la magnitud y el comportamiento del dolor crónico, da cuenta de la complejidad de este fenómenos social. El dolor no sólo es provocado por las lesiones tisulares, sino la afectación de la subjetividad emocional, que deviene en un drama social, vivencias condicionadas por tensiones sociales, económicas, familiares y de pareja, síntomas y signos entretejidos con el sufrimiento, por lo que se hace necesaria una comprensión integral de las personas.