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Roots of Identity
Despite over 50 years of literacy training by the Mexican government, the National Census records an illiteracy rate of over 70 percent in most Indian communities. This book attempts to discover why so many Indians are illiterate today despite an indigenous literary tradition that dates back to the pre-Conquest period. The author sees language as the main factor explaining the high illiteracy rate in the Indian regions. Although alphabets have been created for most of Mexico's indigenous languages, there is no longer a literate tradition in the languages themselves, and writing is intrinsically associated with the official and dominant language, Spanish. Indians continue to reproduce their group identity through the maintenance of linguistic and cultural boundaries. How these boundaries have been built over time and how they continue to be maintained throughout the 20th century form the substance of this book.
Madrid 1900
Madrid 1900 assesses the cultural history of Madrid and its relation to the cultural history of Spain through examining the literature written in and on Madrid at the turn of the nineteenth century. The center for Spanish national identity, turn-of-the-century Madrid offered a haven for young writers to try out their ideas and launch their careers. Ugarte traces the history of this writerly consciousness in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, combining historical, biographical, and literary sources.
Indigenism
Indigenous people comprise only 0.2% of Brazil's population, yet occupy a prominent role in the nation's consciousness. In her important and passionate new book, anthropologist Alcida Ramos explains this irony, exploring Indian and non-Indian attitudes about interethnic relations. Ramos contends that imagery about indigenous people reflects an ambivalence Brazil has about itself as a nation, for Indians reveal Brazilians' contradiction between their pride in ethnic pluralism and desire for national homogeneity. Based on her more than thirty years of fieldwork and activism on behalf of the Yanomami Indians, Ramos explains the complex ideology called indigenism. She evaluates its meaning throu...
Postmodernity in Latin America
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challen...
Festschrift
Distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic make a major contribution to medieval literary studies in contributions ranging from early epic to Fernando de Rojas. Studies on cuaderna via' verse and the poets of the cancionero' figure prominently, as do the Libro de buen amor' and Celestina'; these are complemented by individual essays on texts outside the mainstream, on the language and versification of the period, on the prose writers of the fifteenth century, and on literary activity in Catalonia, Galicia and Portugal. The collection demonstrates the range of interest and approach characteristic of recent Hispanic scholarship, and provides new insights into the medieval mind at w...
Coded Encounters
An excellent collection of essays about colonial Lain America that help us to rethink and reconfigure the traditional canon and issues of representation. The essays range from a consideration Amerindian codes of map-making to the career of a transvestie nun. Contributors include Walter Mignolo, Maureen Ahern, Abel Aives, Rolena Adorno, Lucia Helena Santiago Costigan, Pedro Lasarte, Raquel Chang-Rodrigez, Regina Harrison. Asuncion Lavrin, Stephanie Merrim, Nina M. Scott, Antonio Carreno, Julie Greer Johnson, Karen Stolley, and Antonia Benitez-Rojo
La educación física en la escuela: recursos, experiencias y prácticas innovadoras en educación infantil y primaria
El propósito de este libro es presentar una muestra de recursos, experiencias y prácticas innovadoras en Educación Infantil y Primaria, que puedan resultar de interés para el conjunto de los miembros de la comunidad educativa. Igualmente, el libro ofrece algunos estudios que han estado centrados en el análisis de algunas experiencias ofreciendo visiones de lo que ha sucedido en la escuela en el momento que se han desarrollado. Hemos procurado recoger experiencias llevadas a cabo en los últimos años y que pongan de relieve las posibilidades educativas que proporciona la Educación Física en la escuela, desde el aprendizaje de procedimientos y estrategias, la socialización, la resoluc...
Una historia, cuatro historias
¿Cómo afecta la política educativa al desarrollo de procesos innovadores con TIC en los centros educativos? ¿Qué procesos de formación y desarrollo profesional se hacen patentes en la gestión y evaluación de proyectos de innovación con TIC? ¿Qué aspectos de la cultura organizativa y profesional cambian con los procesos de innovación con TIC? ¿Cómo se modifican los contenidos, las actividades, los recursos o la evaluación cuando se utilizan TIC? Ésta es la historia de cuatro centros educativos de Galicia a los que el grupo de investigación Stellae de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela acompañó buscando abordar desde dentro los problemas y retos de la innovación con tecnologías en el aula.
