Sommer Cultural Agency in the Americas

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8748-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sommer, Doris

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barbero, Jesus Martin

Taylor, Diana

Canclini, Néstor Garcia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Wiggle Room / Doris Sommer 1

1. Media 29

Intervening from and through Research Practice: Meditations on the Cuzco Workshop / Jesus Martin Barbero 31

Between Technology and Culture: Communication and Modernity in Latin America / Jesus Martin Barbero 37

DNA of Performance / Diana Taylor 52

A City that Improvises Its Globalization / Nestor Garcia Canclini 82

2. Maneuvers 91

The Cultural Agency of Wounded Bodies Politic: Ethnicity and Gender as Prosthetic Support in Postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 93

Tradition, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble / J. Lorand Matory 121

The Discourses of Diversity: Language, Ethnicity, and Interculturality in Latin America / Juan Carlos Godenzzi 146

Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the War / Arturo Arias 167

Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi.que? / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 178

Olodum’s Transcultural Spaces: Community and Difference in Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Performance / Denise Corte 203

Political Construction and Cultural Instrumentalities of Indigenism in Brazil, with Echoes from Latin America / Alcida Rita Ramos 229

Questioning State Geographies of Inclusion in Argentina: The Cultural Politics of Organizations with Mapuche Leadership and Philosophy / Claudia Briones 248

3. Cautions 279

Cultural Agency and Political Struggle in the Era of the Indio Permitido / Charles R. Hale and Rosamel Millaman 281

The Crossroads of Faith: Heroism and Melancholia in the Colombian “Violentologists” (1980–2000) / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo 305

Afterword: A Fax, Two Moles, a Consul, and a Judge / Mary Louise Pratt 326

Afterword: Spread It Around! / Claudio Lomnitz 334

References 341

Contributors 371

Index 375

Über Autor(innen)

Doris Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. Her books include Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education, also published by Duke University Press.