Cultural Agency in the Americas

Author: Sommer, Doris; Barbero, Jesus Martin; Taylor, Diana; Canclini, Néstor Garcia
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822387480
eISBN Pdf: 9780822387480
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2006
Month: January
Pages: 392
DDC: 306/.098
Language: English

Contents
Introduction: Wiggle Room
1. Media
- Intervening from and through Research Practice: Meditations on the Cuzco Workshop
- Between Technology and Culture: Communication and Modernity in Latin America
- DNA of Performance: Political Hauntology
- A City that Improvises Its Globalization
2. Maneuvers
- The Cultural Agency of Wounded Bodies Politic: Ethnicity and Gender as Prosthetic Support in Postwar Guatemala
- Tradition, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
- The Discourses of Diversity: Language, Ethnicity, and Interculturality in Latin America
- Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the War
- Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi . . . qué?
- Olodum's Transcultural Spaces: Community and Differences in Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Performance
- Political Construction and Cultural Instrumentalities of Indigenism in Brazil, with Echoes from Latin America
- Questioning State Geographies of Inclusion in Argentina: The Cultural Politics of Organizations with Mapuche Leadership and Philosophy
3. Cautions
- Cultural Agency and Political Struggle in the Era of the Indio Permitido
- The Crossroads of Faith: Heroism and Melancholia in the Colombian‘‘Violentologists’’ (1980–2000)
- Afterword: A Fax, Two Moles, a Consul, and a Judge
- Afterword: Spread It Around!
References
Contributors
Index

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