Download or read book Mexican Celebrations written by Eliot Porter and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico, religion permeates everyday life, and everyday life permeates religion. This photographic study of the Catholic celebrations of Christmas, Lent, and Easter captures the lively tradition of religious celebration. Essays by Donna Pierce and Marsha Bol explain their significance and evolution.
Download or read book Cinco de Mayo written by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Mexican American from California learns about her heritage and celebrates the holiday with her friends, family, and community.
Download or read book In the Eye of the Sun written by Geoff Winningham and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Winningham began photographing the popular fiestas of Mexico in 1984. Returning to the same Mexican villages several times a year, he formed personal relationships with families who permitted him to photograph them in the intimacy of their homes, and local officials who gave him special access to all phases of the celebrations. The fiestas provide tangible links to the pre-Hispanic cultures of middle America, intertwining some of the great Pagan festivals of these ancient peoples with catholic ritual and tradition. In the Eye of the Sun is a remarkable visual chronicle of Mexican life. The book also includes an introduction by Richard Rodriguez and an essay by J.M.G. Le Clezio.
Download or read book Celebraciones Mexicanas written by Andrea Lawson Gray and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebraciones Mexicanas: History, Traditions, and Recipes is the first book to bring the richness and authenticity of the foods of Mexico’s main holidays and celebrations to the American home cook. This cultural cookbook offers insight into the traditional Mexican holidays that punctuate Mexican life and provides more than 200 original recipes to add to our Mexican food repertoire. The authors first discuss Mexican eating customs and then cover 25 holidays and festivals throughout the year, from the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Carnaval, Cinco de Mayo, to the Day of the Revolution, with family celebrations for rites of passage, too. Each holiday/festival includes historical background and cultural and food information. The lavishly illustrated book is appropriate for those seeking basic knowledge of Mexican cooking and customs as well as aficionados of Mexican cuisine.
Download or read book Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo written by Dianne M. MacMillan and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins and traditions of these two special holidays are presented in this illustrated reference book with full-color photos for middle readers.
Download or read book Mexican Celebrations written by Maria-Garza Lubeck and published by University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and provides background information about nine Mexican and Mexican American holidays. Includes songs, directions for making dishes and decorations typical of individual holidays, and other items.
Download or read book Mexican Culture written by Lori McManus and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Culture covers a vast array of subjects on Mexican culture -- from fine arts to ceremonies, from legends to the culture's global influence.
Download or read book Celebrations in My World written by Kate Torpie and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for May 5th, on this date Mexican culture is celebrated. On Cinco de Mayo everyone gets to be Mexican for a day!" --from publisher.
Download or read book Cultural Traditions in Mexico written by Lynn Peppas and published by Cultural Traditions in My Worl. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interesting book describes how the blending of native Mexican and Spanish traditions, beliefs, and rituals has resulted in many of the lively and colorful festivals celebrated in Mexico today. Young readers will also learn how the Mexican people celebrate family occasions with fiestas.
Download or read book The People and Culture of Mexico written by Rachael Morlock and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's resplendent culture is evidence of the rich heritage of its people. Readers will explore the converging cultures that have shaped Mexico, from ancient civilizations such as the Zapotec and Maya, to the French and Spanish. With vibrant photographs and accessible, informative content, readers will learn how the capital was built on a lake by the Aztecs, the contributions Mexican people have made to art, literature, and much more. This multi-faceted analysis of history and culture offers a unique take on curricular social studies.
Download or read book Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture written by Colin M. MacLachlan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violent clash of two empires and shows how modern Mestizo culture evolved over the centuries as a synthesis of Old and New World civilizations. Colin MacLachlan begins by tracing Spain and Mesoamerica’s parallel trajectories from tribal enclaves to complex feudal societies. When the Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlán and destroyed it in 1521, the Aztecs could only interpret this catastrophe in cosmic terms. With their gods discredited and their population ravaged by epidemics, they succumbed quickly to Spanish control—which meant submitting to Christianity. Spain had just emerged from its centuries-long struggle against the Moors, and zealous Christianity was central to its imperial vision. But Spain’s conquistadors far outnumbered its missionaries, and the Church’s decision to exclude Indian converts from priesthood proved shortsighted. Native religious practices persisted, and a richly blended culture—part Indian, part Christian—began to emerge. The religious void left in the wake of Spain’s conquests had enduring consequences. MacLachlan’s careful analysis explains why Mexico is culturally a Mestizo country while ethnically Indian, and why modern Mexicans remain largely orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Download or read book Fiesta written by Chloë Sayer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.
Download or read book Feliz Navidad written by and published by World Book. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of the celebrations, customs, and practices of Mexico and of Mexican Americans. Also includes crafts, recipes, and carols"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Migration Narratives written by Stanton Wortham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Boston College.
Download or read book Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the Mexican Hat Dance written by F. Isabel Campoy and published by Alfaguara Infantil. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As students prepare to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, they practice a Mexican dance and try their best not to step on the hat. Includes an informative section about Cinco de Mayo.
Download or read book Celebrating Insurrection written by Will Fowler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a problematic yet necessary practice. Although pronunciamientos rarely achieved the goals for which they were undertaken and sometimes resulted in armed rebellion, they were nonetheless both celebrated and commemorated, and the perceptions and representations of pronunciamientos themselves reflected the Mexican people’s response to these “revolutions.” The third in a series of books examining the pronunciamiento, this collection addresses the complicated legacy of pronunciamientos and their place in Mexican political culture. The essays explore the sacralization and legitimization of these revolts and of their leaders in the nation’s history and consider why these celebrations proved ultimately ineffective in consecrating the pronunciamiento as a force for good, rather than one motivated by desires for power, promotion, and plunder. Celebrating Insurrection offers readers interpretations of acts of celebration and commemoration that explain the uneasy adoption of pronunciamientos as Mexico’s preferred means of effecting political change during this turbulent period in the nation’s history.
Download or read book LIVING WITH MEXICAN ENVIRONMENTS CULTURE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE FOR DECADES written by Ratikanta Maiti and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Mexican environments, culture, education and science for decades narrates a concise experience of Professor Ratikanta Maiti during last 30 years as a Professor and Research scientist on Mexican environments, culture, education and scientific research, who was borne and brought up in a remote village in Calcutta, India, have settled in Mexico in a totally different environment and culture. He narrates that though he had faced several obstacles in the form of language, communication, culture and environment, in a short span of time he learnt Spanish language and could guide a number of Mexican students. He also made a concise and critical review on climate, biodiversity, agriculture, religion, pyramids, volcanoes, role of ethnic tribes and their culture, Mexican family, habits, marriage systems, food habits, clothing, festivals, Mexican villages, sea beaches, transport systems, political structure, social problems, and several other aspects. He made constructive criticism and suggestions on some of the aspects mentioned above. He narrates explicitly architecture, music and dance by his own experiences on the system of education and science in Mexico as well as his significant contributions in teaching and multidisciplinary research. This gives an insight in to the Mexican culture and, his contributions to the professional development of students and teachers in research. This shows that adaptation to a different environment and culture is a prerequisite to contribute significantly to the research and one has to have a dedicative and competitive spirit to compete with the native scientists of Mexico. His judicious and strenuous efforts in research led to the publishing of many books and research papers with the Mexican Scientists. The book indicates that Mexico has vast natural resources which need to be conserved and make sustainable use of them. This book serves as a guide to foreigners to know about Mexican climates, culture, education and science and various aspects of Mexico. He and his family have great love for Mexicans.
