Download or read book Mito y magia del mexicano written by Jorge Carrión and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mitos y magia del mexicano written by Jorge Carrión and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mito y magia del mexicano written by Jorge Carrión and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mitos mexicanos nueva edici n written by Enrique Florescano and published by DEBOLSILLO. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si se considera que gran parte de la memoria colectiva está encapsulada en mitos, este libro viene a llenar un hueco en la reflexión y el acercamiento a la cultura mexicana, en nociones tan importantes como patria, nación, héroes y símbolos nacionales. En Mitos mexicanos , una compilación coordinada por Enrique Florescano, varios reconocidos estudiosos y escritores se reúnen para analizar tanto los mitos fundacionales del país, como las figuras actuales que han alcanzado un lugar privilegiado en el imaginario colectivo mexicano. El mito es una de las expresiones de la mentalidad colectiva. Manifiesta las aspiraciones más recónditas de los seres humanos, y transmite, por ejemplo, temores compartidos o construye seres legendarios, héroes o villanos, y los convierte en personajes mitológicos. En Mitos mexicanos, estudiosos y escritores como Carlos Monsiváis, José Woldenberg, Juan Villoro, Margo Glantz, Hugo Hiriart, Carlos Montemayor, Cristina Pacheco, Bárbara Jacobs y Soledad Loaeza, entre otros, se reúnen para conformar un inventario de los mitos más entrañables u obsesivos para los mexicanos. Dividido en tres partes, el libro abarca desde los mitos fundacionales del país, hasta aquellos con los que convivimos hoy en día. También analiza figuras actuales que han alcanzado un lugar privilegiado en el imaginario colectivo, como el mariachi, el guerrillero, el narcotraficante, el rockero, el chicano y otros ídolos de reciente creación. La crítica ha dicho: "La obra de Enrique Florescano es una de las más sólidas en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales en México. Se trata de un trabajo sistemático de exploración del pasado que ha permitido comprender mejor la sociedad mexicana actual y sus perspectivas." -Andrés Fábregas Puig ̧ Nexos-
Download or read book Mexico written by Ramon Ruiz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and considers the weighty role the United States has played, starting with an unjust war that cost Mexico half its territory. Based on Ruiz’s decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand where the country has come, why it is where it is today, and where it might go in the future.
Download or read book Leopoldo Zea written by Solomon Lipp and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyzes Mexican national identity in the context of the philosophy of Leopoldo Zea, contemporary Mexican thinker. He attempts to establish national character traits peculiar to Mexico, using sociological, psychological, historical, and philosophical approaches. He then shows how Zea deals with the problem of Mexican identity and how he relates specifically Mexican concepts to universal philosophic and historic thought. Ranging widely over many disciplines, this scholarly study will be particularly valuable to readers familiar with philosophy, sociology, and psychology.
Download or read book The Mexico Reader written by Gilbert M. Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico—including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what underlies the chronic instability, violence, and economic turmoil that have characterized periods of Mexico’s history while it also celebrates the country’s rich cultural heritage. A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, The Mexico Reader brings together poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photoessays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing. Many pieces are by Mexicans, and a substantial number appear for the first time in English. Works by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes are included along with pieces about such well-known figures as the larger-than-life revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata; there is also a comminiqué from a more recent rebel, Subcomandante Marcos. At the same time, the book highlights the perspectives of many others—indigenous peoples, women, politicians, patriots, artists, soldiers, rebels, priests, workers, peasants, foreign diplomats, and travelers. The Mexico Reader explores what it means to be Mexican, tracing the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times through the country’s epic revolution (1910–17) to the present day. The materials relating to the latter half of the twentieth century focus on the contradictions and costs of postrevolutionary modernization, the rise of civil society, and the dynamic cross-cultural zone marked by the two thousand-mile Mexico-U.S. border. The editors have divided the book into several sections organized roughly in chronological order and have provided brief historical contexts for each section. They have also furnished a lengthy list of resources about Mexico, including websites and suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book Artful Assassins written by Fernando Fabio Sanchez and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grim role of violence in shaping modern Mexican identity
Download or read book Contemporary Mexico written by James W. Wilkie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Download or read book Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century written by Carlos Alberto Sánchez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and introduced some of the most influential texts in Mexican philosophy, which constitute a unique and robust tradition that will challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerged from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and which culminated in la filosofía de lo mexicano (the philosophy of Mexicanness). Though the selections reflect on a variety of philosophical questions, collectively they represent a growing tendency to take seriously the question of Mexican national identity as a philosophical question--especially given the complexities of Mexico's indigenous and European ancestries, a history of colonialism, and a growing dependency on foreign money and culture. More than an attempt to describe the national character, however, the texts gathered here represent an optimistic period in Mexican philosophy that aimed to affirm Mexican culture and philosophy as a valuable, if not urgent, contribution to universal culture.
Download or read book Mitos mexicanos written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En Mitos mexicanos, una compilación coordinada por Enrique Florescano, varios reconocidos estudiosos y escritores se reúnen para analizar tanto los mitos fundacionales del país, como las figuras actuales que han alcanzado un lugar privilegiado en el imaginario colectivo mexicano.El mito es una de las expresiones de la mentalidad colectiva. Manifiesta las aspiraciones más recónditas de los seres humanos, y transmite, por ejemplo, temores compartidos o construye seres legendarios, héroes o villanos, y los convierte en personajes mitológicos.En Mitos mexicanos, estudiosos y escritores como Carlos Monsiváis, José Woldenberg, Juan Villoro, Margo Glantz, Hugo Hiriart, Carlos Montemayor, Cristina Pacheco, Bárbara Jacobs y Soledad Loaeza, entre otros, se reúnen para conformar un inventario de los mitos más entrañables u obsesivos para los mexicanos. Dividido en tres partes, el libro abarca desde los mitos fundacionales del país, hasta aquellos con los que convivimos hoy en día. También analiza figuras actuales que han alcanzado un lugar privilegiado en el imaginario colectivo, como el mariachi, el guerrillero, el narcotraficante, el rockero, el chicano y otros ídolos de reciente creación.La crítica ha dicho:"La obra de Enrique Florescano es una de las más sólidas en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales en México. Se trata de un trabajo sistemático de exploración del pasado que ha permitido comprender mejor la sociedad mexicana actual y sus perspectivas." -Andrés Fábregas Puig℗ı Nexos-
Download or read book Pathways of Power written by Eric R. Wolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems in to its purview.
Download or read book Primitivism and Identity in Latin America written by Erik Camayd-Freixas and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although primitivism has received renewed attention in recent years, studies linking it with Latin America have been rare. This volume examines primitivism and its implications for contemporary debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing how Latin American subjects employ a Western construct to "return the gaze" of the outside world and redefine themselves in relation to modernity. Examining such subjects as Julio Cortázar and Frida Kahlo and such topics as folk art and cinema, the volume brings together for the first time the views of scholars who are currently engaging the task of cultural studies from the standpoint of primitivism. These varied contributions include analyses of Latin American art in relation to social issues, popular culture, and official cultural policy; essays in cultural criticism touching on ethnic identity, racial politics, women's issues, and conflictive modernity; and analytical studies of primitivism's impact on narrative theory and practice, film, theater, and poetry. This collection contributes offers a new perspective on a variety of significant debates in Latin American cultural studies and shows that the term primitive does not apply to these cultures as much as to our understanding of them. CONTENTS Paradise Subverted: The Invention of the Mexican Character / Roger Bartra Between Sade and the Savage: Octavio Paz’s Aztecs / Amaryll Chanady Under the Shadow of God: Roots of Primitivism in Early Colonial Mexico / Delia Annunziata Cosentino Of Alebrijes and Ocumichos: Some Myths about Folk Art and Mexican Identity / Eli Bartra Primitive Borders: Cultural Identity and Ethnic Cleansing in the Dominican Republic / Fernando Valerio-Holguín Dialectics of Archaism and Modernity: Technique and Primitivism in Angel Rama’s Transculturación narrativa en América Latina / José Eduardo González Narrative Primitivism: Theory and Practice in Latin America / Erik Camayd-Freixas Narrating the Other: Julio Cortázar’s "Axolotl" as Ethnographic Allegory / R. Lane Kauffmann Jungle Fever: Primitivism in Environmentalism; Rómulo Gallegos’s Canaima and the Romance of the Jungle / Jorge Marcone Primitivism and Cultural Production: Future’s Memory; Native Peoples’ Voices in Latin American Society / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty Primitive Bodies in Latin American Cinema: Nicolás Echevarría’s Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo Subliminal Body: Shamanism, Ancient Theater, and Ethnodrama / Gabriel Weisz Primitivist Construction of Identity in the Work of Frida Kahlo / Wendy B. Faris Mi andina y dulce Rita: Women, Indigenism, and the Avant-Garde in César Vallejo / Tace Megan Hedrick
Download or read book A Latin American Existentialist Ethos written by Stephanie Merrim and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales. In taking up these frameworks, Latin Americans endowed them with a distinctive ethos, a turn towards questions of identity and ethics. Stephanie Merrim situates major literary and philosophical works—by the existentialist Grupo Hiperión, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, and Rodolfo Usigli—within this dynamic context. Collectively, their writings manifest an existentialist ethos attuned to the matters most alive and pressing in their specific situations—matters linked to gender, Indigeneity, the Mexican Revolution, and post-Revolution politics. That each of these writers orchestrates a unique center of gravity renders Mexican existentialist literature an always shifting, always passionate adventure. A Latin American Existentialist Ethos takes readers on this adventure, conveying the passions of its subjects lucidly and vibrantly. It is at once a detailed portrait of twentieth-century Mexican existentialism and an expansive look at Latin American literary existentialism in relation—and opposition—to its European counterparts.
Download or read book Mexico Reading the United States written by Linda Egan and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.
Download or read book In Quest of Identity written by Martin S. Stabb and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines an important type of Spanish-American essay--one that deals with the problems of a developing civilization--and places its focus on the history of ideas rather than on literature per se, pointing up the hemispheric pattern of intellectual development in most of the major Spanish-American countries and revealing a general pattern in cultural development. Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
