Author: Janet Brody EsserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Caras de Fiesta
Author: Janet Brody EsserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Author: Sidney Jackson JowersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Crafting Identity
Author: Pavel ShlossbergPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.
Caras de Fiesta
Author: Janet Brody EsserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnival
Languages : es
Pages : 70
Book Description
Chicano Library Resource Center Bibliography
Author: Jeff PaulPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Chicanos: a Checklist of Current Materials
Author: 'Mixed Race' Studies
Author: Jayne O. IfekwunigwePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135170711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
Divination on stage
Author: Folke GernertPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Pima Bajo
Author: Zarina Estrada FernándezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pima Bajo language
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Object of the Atlantic
Author: Rachel PricePublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810130130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.