Exploring the role of performance in tourist and nationalist contexts, Embodying Mexico analyzes the making of icons in twentieth-century Mexico, as local dance, music, and ritual practices are transformed into national and global spectacles. Drawing on extensive ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience this interdisciplinary study makes an important contribution to an understanding of Mexican cultural politics. INDICE: Part One: Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos; Introduction; 1. BeyondYour Expectations: Twentyfirst Century Mexico; 2. Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism; Part Two: Tracing Ninety Years of Performism; 3. Forging the Nation: the Postrevolutionary Years; 4. Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City; 5. Destination Lake Pátzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with Night of the Dead; 6. Authentic Mexican Dances: The Palace of Fine Arts and Across the Border; 7. Films, Visual Images, and Folklórico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies; 8. Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs; 9. Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World; 10. Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zacán Festival; Part Three: Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics; 11. In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation; 12. Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, and the World's Fair; 13. Celebrating and Consuming Bodies: Economic and Symbolic Production
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534036-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés