ISBN:
9780822334873
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (393 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Agency in the Americas
DDC:
306/.098
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the WarRadio 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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