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Músicas migrantes. La movilidad artística en la era global
En esta época de intensa movilidad mujeres y hombres, objetos sonoros y melodías, se agitan incesantemente en un mundo contemporáneo productor de aquella entropía denunciada por Lévi- Strauss. Las diferentes prácticas cotidianas son trastocadas por la impronta de una modernidad sin límites, en cuyos espacios de tránsito se violan y reconfiguran los más elementales principios espirituales de la continuidad cultural, aquellos que procuran el sosiego de los hábitos y costumbres de nuestra sociedad. Sin embargo, en medio de este cúmulo entropizador de objetos y sujetos volátiles y migrantes, encontramos la música como uno de los artefactos culturales que, además, por su naturaleza ...
El chivo encantado
"La obra magistral de Miguel Olmos es el fruto de un extenso trabajo de campo en el noroeste de México, abarcando todas las facetas de la antropología: observación y análisis etnológico, arqueología, etnohistoria y archivos modernos. Además, el autor ha desarrollado una investigación original en el campo de la etnomusicología, disciplina en la que es reconocido especialista. Consagrándose en el estudio de lo que los mexicanistas llaman el mundo chichimeca, -el mundo de los pueblos nómadas del norte de México-, Miguel Olmos ha dado a esta área cultural las cartas de nobleza que no siempre ha tenido. A menudo desatendida en provecho de áreas más meridionales, el área norteña es, sin embargo, antropológicamente apasionante pues representa una parte exterior de la memoria mesoamericana"--P. [4] de la cubierta.
The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures
A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folklore studies, and allied disciplines to develop new perspectives on musical practices and auditory cultures. With sustained theoretical meditations and evocative ethnography, the book's twenty-two chapters advance scholarship on topics at the heart of...
Border Killers
Border Killers delves into how recent Mexican creators have reported, analyzed, distended, and refracted the increasingly violent world of neoliberal Mexico, especially its versions of masculinity. By looking to the insights of artists, writers, and filmmakers, Elizabeth Villalobos offers a path for making sense and critiquing very real border violence in contemporary Mexico. Villalobos focuses on representations of “border killers” in literature, film, and theater. The author develops a metaphor of “maquilization” to describe the mass-production of masculine violence as a result of neoliberalism. The author demonstrates that the killer is an interchangeable cog in a societal factory...
Listening to Sicarios
Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico’s drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record levels of narcoviolence experienced in Ciudad Juárez between 2008 and 2012, this study analyzes the ways in which these young men interpret their actions across four key thematic axes: border infrastructures, youth and responsibility, masculinity and sentiment, and ethics: good vs. evil. It argues that sicarios follow a career path within a criminal corporate infrastructure that is especially robust in Mexican border cities. It also explores how sicarios understand youthful innocence in relation to adult accountability in the realm of violence that is frequently meted out by young men on other young men. It then analyzes sicarios’ expressions of feelings of power that may boost their sense of virility, as well as feelings of fear and regret that imply weakness. Finally, it examines how sicarios defend their personal integrity in the face of a public discourse that views their acts as savage.
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology
This volume takes stock of the empirical evidence, theoretical orientations, and historical reconstructions of archaeology of the American Southwest. Themed chapters on method and theory are accompanied by comprehensive overviews of all major cultural traditions in the region, from the Paleoindians, to Chaco Canyon, to the onset of Euro-American imperialism.
Global Challenges in the Arctic Region
Bringing together interconnected discussions to make explicit the complexity of the Arctic region, this book offers a legal discussion of the ongoing territorial disputes and challenges in order to frame their impact into the viability of different governance strategies that are available at the national, regional and international level. One of the intrinsic features of the region is the difficulty in the determination of boundaries, responsibilities and interests. Against this background, sovereignty issues are intertwined with environmental and geopolitical issues that ultimately affect global strategic balances and international trade and, at the same time, influence national approaches ...
Lotería Huasteca
Home to an ethnically and linguistically diverse population, the Huasteca region of Eastern Mexico defies geographic and political boundaries and is instead known for its kaleidoscope of indigenous cultures rich in traditional art, music and dance. In Lotería Huasteca, author, visual artist and musician Alec Dempster illustrates the traditions and music of the Huasteca region with a series of woodblock prints and accompanying explanatory texts that capture the style and history of the region and its people. Organized in the form of the popular household game of lotería, Dempster’s words and images provide a fascinating mix of cultural reference, music history and artwork, which together form an educational game that imparts a tantalizing taste of the vibrant and diverse world of the Huasteca.
