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Days of Death, Days of Life
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in the popular culture of poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Norget's work offers an original perspective on the significance of the Day of the Dead and other Oaxacan ritual practices in shaping people's values and social identities. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxacan neighborhoods, Norget includes vivid descriptions of Day of the Dead rituals.
LOS CAMINOS DE LA EDUCACIÓN INTERCULTURAL EN AMÉRICA LATINA
La educación intercultural en América Latina está ligada estrechamente a los pueblos originarios de la región, pues ha sido una respuesta a las demandas del movimiento indígena por una educación impartida en su lengua y a partir del respeto a sus culturas. A pesar de que actualmente la educación con la modalidad intercultural pueda verse como algo inherente a los sistemas educativos de los diferentes países latinoamericanos, es necesario recordar que ha sido larga la espera por lograr en las aulas espacios propios donde los pueblos indígenas puedan recrear sus formas de vida y a partir de ellas incluir saberes provenientes de otras tradiciones, como ha sido muy breve el tiempo en qu...
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.
Oaxaca Resurgent
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ambitious agency of its kind in the Americas. This book shows how generations of Indigenous actors, operating from within the Mexican government while also challenging its authority, proved instrumental in democratizing the local teachers' trade union and implementing bilingual education. Focusing on ...
Transnational Sport in the American West
Transnational Sport in the American West is the story of how a sport can cross physical and cultural borders. Catholic missionaries first brought the sport of basketball to southern Mexico in the early twentieth century, but over time the sport has grown into a cultural tradition in states like Oaxaca (Wa-hak-a). The ball bounced across the Mexico/U.S. border into Los Angeles, CA during the 1970s and pick-up games in the park eventually became organized tournaments. In 1977, an annual tournament called the Benito Juárez Cup was established in Guelatao, Oaxaca to celebrate the culture of basketball in the region and to honor former president of Mexico, Benito Juárez. Now, generations of youth from the U.S. travel to Oaxaca to play in the tournament. Follow the story of three youth who describe their culture and the significance the sport of basketball has played in their life. They have different experiences based on age, gender, skill, and birthplace but they all have one thing in common. Basketball is a part of them, and although the sport can be played many different ways, this is their game.
2012
21 December 2012 was believed to mark the end of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. Many people believed this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, a shift to a new form of global consciousness. Examining how much of the phenomenon is based on the historical record and how much is contemporary fiction, the book explores the landscape of the modern apocalyptic imagination, the economics of the spiritual marketplace, the commodification of countercultural values, and the cult of celebrity.
Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko
Im Zuge fortschreitender Globalisierung und daraus resultierender Dynamiken geraten indigene Sprachen immer stärker in Konkurrenz zu ‚dominanten‘ Kontaktsprachen. Mexiko ist in diesem Zusammenhang ein besonders markantes Beispiel: Genuin mehrsprachig, ist es gleichzeitig weltweit das Land mit den meisten Spanischsprechern. Die Situation ist von einer jahrhundertelangen Tradition der Unterdrückung und Ausgrenzung der indigenen Völker geprägt. Dies hat sich in einer Sprach- und Bildungspolitik niedergeschlagen, die erst sehr spät überhaupt die Existenz indigener Völker in der Verfassung anerkannt hat. In dieser Arbeit stehen die Vitalität des Maya sowie die Situation seiner Spreche...
