Author: Octavio Madigan RuizPublisher:
ISBN: 9780961774370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Las Caras de Mexico
Author: Octavio Madigan RuizPublisher:
ISBN: 9780961774370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Many Faces of Mexico
Author: Octavio Madigan RuizPublisher:
ISBN: 9780961774394
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Many Faces of Mexico is an interdisciplinary guide to teaching and learning about contemporary Mexico and the rich diversity of the Mexican people. It is based on the premise that in order to understand the present, we also must understand Mexico's past. The guide contains background information, numerous primary source materials, clearly designed lesson plans, student worksheets, and dozens of innovative activities for the classroom. Three questions are posed throughout "Where is Mexico?" which locates Mexico in time and space and considers questions about perspective, definitions, and names. "Who are the Mexican people?" which explores the cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity of the Mexican people through stories, role-plays, and images. "What is Mexico?" which presents political, historical, economic, and cultural questions and connects the people of the United States with the Mexican people.
The Many Faces of Mexico
Author: Charlene Wear SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781587030581
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The goal of this report is to provide California policymakers with a detailed and succinct background discussion of some of the key demographic, education, health, economic, and political factors that characterize modern Mexico. The report generally does not examine border issues, nor does it feature current events. Whenever possible, the analysis relies on state level data, providing a richer understanding of Mexico's complex and distinct regions. The reader should gain an appreciation of the challenges posed by Mexico's rapidly growing, diverse population, the country's depressed domestic economy and its troubled political environment.
Many Faces Of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches To Homosexual
Author: Evelyn BlackwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317959663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguished authors examine Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior, Mexican homosexual interaction in public contexts, male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil, and much more.
Two Nations Indivisible
Author: Shannon K. O'NeilPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199898340
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords. Without a doubt, the drug war is real. In the last six years, over 60,000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes. But, there is far more to Mexico's story than this gruesome narrative would suggest. While thugs have been grabbing the headlines, Mexico has undergone an unprecedented and under-publicized political, economic, and social transformation. In her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil argues that the United States is making a grave mistake by focusing on the politics of antagonism toward Mexico. Rather, we should wake up to the revolution of prosperity now unfolding there. The news that isn't being reported is that, over the last decade, Mexico has become a real democracy, providing its citizens a greater voice and opportunities to succeed on their own side of the border. Armed with higher levels of education, upwardly-mobile men and women have been working their way out of poverty, building the largest, most stable middle class in Mexico's history. This is the Mexico Americans need to get to know. Now more than ever, the two countries are indivisible. It is past time for the U.S. to forge a new relationship with its southern neighbor. Because in no uncertain terms, our future depends on it.
Romantic Mexico--the Image and the Realities
Author: Boye De MentePublisher: Cultural-Insight Books
ISBN: 0914778978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This insightful guide provides an in-depth look at the history of male-female relations in Mexico; at how Indian, Moorish and Spanish influences molded the character of present-day Mexicans, and how these influences continue to play a role in sexual moral-ity, courting and marriage in Mexico. It covers the origins of the machismo cult, the smoldering pas-sions of men and women, the extraordinary romantic nature of Mexicans, the violent element in love, sex and marriage, visitors looking for romance in Mexico.and more! There are also some choice aphrodisiacs, including one that is known as "Raise the Dead!"
No Mere Shadows
Author: Shirley Cushing FlintPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353118
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Shirley Flint explores the stories of three widows in Mexico City, giving us a glimpse at the structure of everyday life in colonial Mexico, especially the ways that women conducted business, practiced religion, and manipulated politics. Each of these widows' stories illustrates an often overlooked aspect of Spanish life in the New World"--Provided by publisher.
Biennial Boom
Author: Paloma Checa-GismeroPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478059486
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions to become the global art world’s defining events at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the early post-Cold War years, Checa-Gismero examines the early iterations of three well-known biennials at the borders of North Atlantic liberalism: the Bienal de La Habana, inSITE, and Manifesta. She draws on archival and oral history fieldwork in Cuba, Mexico, the US/Mexico borderlands, and the Netherlands, showing how these biennials reflected a post-Cold War optimism for a pacified world by which artistic and knowledge production would help mend social, political, and cultural divisions. Checa-Gismero argues that, in reflecting this optimism, biennials facilitated the conversion of subaltern aesthetic genealogies into forms that were legible to a nascent cosmopolitan global elite—all under the pretense of cultural exchange. By outlining how early biennials set the basis for what is now recognized as “global contemporary art,” Checa-Gismero intervenes in previous accounts of the contemporary art world in order to better understand how it became the exclusionary, rarified institution of today.
Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives
Author: Olof Kjell Oscar OhlsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666909386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines nonviolent activism and armed uprisings in the narco war. Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson argues that relatives of Mexico’s many victims of violence, often without earlier experiences of human rights advocacy, become activists protesting violence or form self-armed citizens’ police to resist state, capitalist, and criminal violence. Ohlson develops innovative theories on political afterlives and rituals of rebellion, demonstrating how political street protests transform over time to become annual commemorative events at new memorial sites for the disappeared.
The Many Faces of Subud
Author: Riantee Lydia RandPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413488358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Subud is a direct and spontaneous spiritual experience that allows people to receive a contact with the Great Life Force. It re-awakens their inner feeling and puts them in touch with their own guidance, eventually bringing to the surface their true nature which was before obstructed and cluttered with erroneous beliefs, ancestral patterns of behavior, culture, education and their family malfunctions. Many have found a deeper understanding of their own religious beliefs from the evidence they receive for themselves. Others have come to actualize their true talent and work. There are Subud groups in eighty countries, bringing together harmoniously people of many different religious and ethnic backgrounds. The spiritual practice, or latihan, arises from within. It is a natural process that occurs without effort or study. This book is the result of the collaborative effort of three women who have practiced the latihan of Subud for decades. It compiles testimonies of Subud members from all over the world, on different topics. Each chapter begins with a short account of observations, experiences, receivings and dreams on the subject. People interviewed were of different age groups, social and ethnic backgrounds, some newly "opened" in Subud, some older members, some second and third generation Subud. The opening latihan - when one first receives this contact - is a ceremony of introduction into the spiritual exercise after a three-month period of inquiry referred to as the probation or investigation period. Through the latihan people renew their contact with the power of God and become aware of the latent powers that reside in all of humankind. The central feature of Subud is the latihankejiwaan, or inner training, which takes place for half an hour up to an hour, two or three times a week, and is practiced by men and women separately. Subud has little doctrinal teaching except for the belief in divine power and higher centers of consciousness. The implication is that people practicing the latihan align themselves with those higher centers. It is available to any person seventeen and older who has a sincere wish to worship God and wants to receive this contact. The action of the latihan within each person allows the power of God to express itself spontaneously through singing, chanting, shouting, moving, dancing, crying, laughing, etc. Subud's founder, Bapak Muhammad Subuh, explains that in this way, when in the latihan we make a complete surrender to the Power of God (or the Great Life Force), we can receive the education of our inner selves, free from interference by our minds and hearts and according to our own individual needs. Participants have often reported strong feelings of rapture and release, psychological and physical healing. During latihan, one lets go of thoughts and emotions in order to follow what surfaces: those movements and sounds that spontaneously arise from deep within. It is a form of cleansing which allows the worship of God to become stronger and less obstructed, a training that lets individuals get in touch, develop and trust their inner guidance, enabling the complete self to emerge through an action that comes from beyond the thinking and the will.