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  • 1
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    Paid to Care : Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture (2024)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477327715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 Seiten) , 10 b&w photos
    Series Statement: Border Hispanisms
    DDC: 305.5/62098
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Digital media ; Documentary films ; Household employees in literature ; Household employees in motion pictures ; Household employees Social conditions ; Motion pictures
    Abstract: An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences. Paid domestic work in Latin America is often undervalued, underpaid, and underregulated. Exploring a wave of Latin American cultural texts since the 1980s that draw on the personal experiences of paid domestic work or intimate ties to domestic employees, Paid to Care offers insights into the struggles domestic workers face through an analysis of literary testimonials, documentary and fiction films, and works of digital media. From domestic workers' experiences of unionization in the 1980s to calls for their rights to be respected today, the cultural texts analyzed in Paid to Care provide additional insight into public debates about paid domestic work. Rachel Randall examines work made in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The most recent of these texts respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, which put many domestic workers' health and livelihoods at risk. Engaging with the legal histories of domestic work in multiple distinct national contexts, Randall demonstrates how the legacy of colonialism and slavery shapes the profession even today. Focusing on personal or coproduced cultural representations of domestic workers, Paid to Care explores complex ethical issues relating to consent, mediation, and appropriation
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/327708
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  • 2
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    We Are All Armenian : Voices from the Diaspora (2023)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477326800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    DDC: 305.891/9920730922
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Armenian diaspora ; Armenians Social life and customs ; Armenians Biography ; Armenians Ethnic identity
    Abstract: In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and their descendants have written of a vast range of experiences using storytelling and activism, two important aspects of Armenian culture. Wrestling with questions of home and self, diasporan Armenian writers bear the burden of repeatedly telling their history, as it remains widely erased and obfuscated. Telling this history requires a tangled balance of contextualizing the past and reporting on the present, of respecting a culture even while feeling lost within it. We Are All Armenian brings together established and emerging Armenian authors to reflect on the complications of Armenian ethnic identity today. These personal essays elevate diasporic voices that have been historically silenced inside and outside of their communities, including queer, multiracial, and multiethnic writers. The eighteen contributors to this contemporary anthology explore issues of displacement, assimilation, inheritance, and broader definitions of home. Through engaging creative nonfiction, many of them question what it is to be Armenian enough inside an often unacknowledged community
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/326794
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    Predatory Economies : The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia (2023)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477327098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages) , 11 b&w photos, 1 b&w map
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Guaharibo Indians Political activity ; Guaharibo Indians Economic conditions ; Guaharibo Indians Social conditions ; Guaharibo Indians Social life and customs ; Natural resources Social aspects ; Predation (Biology) Economic aspects ; Predation (Biology) Social aspects ; Yanomami ; Wirtschaft ; Raub ; Handlungsfähigkeit ; Alltag ; Venezuela ; Venezuela ; Yanomami ; Wirtschaft ; Alltag ; Venezuela ; Yanomami ; Raub ; Venezuela ; Yanomami ; Handlungsfähigkeit
    Abstract: A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of modernity under the socialist "Bolivarian" regime and its immense oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction, persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and even sanctuary. Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that while predation is what we think it is-invading enemies, incursions by gold miners, and unscrupulous state interventions-Sanema are not merely prey. Predation, or appropriation without reciprocity, is essential to their own activities. They use predatory techniques of trickery in hunting and shamanism activities, while at the same time, they employ tactics of manipulation to obtain resources from neighbors and from the state. A richly detailed ethnography, Predatory Economies looks beyond well-worn tropes of activism and resistance to tell a new story of agency from an Indigenous perspective
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/327074
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  • 4
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    Unraveling Time : Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador (2022)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477326206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Miles, Ann M. Unraveling time
    DDC: 305.800946/47
    Keywords: Americans History ; Ecuadorians Biography ; Ethnology History ; Overtourism History ; Social change History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has invited in the world and watched as its own citizens risk undocumented migration abroad. Families have arrived from rural towns only to then be displaced from the gentrifying city center. Over time, children have been educated, streetlights have made neighborhoods safer, and remittances from overseas have helped build new homes and sometimes torn people apart. Roads now connect people who once were far away, and talking or texting on cell phones has replaced hanging out at the corner store. Unraveling Time traces the enduring consequences of political and social movements, transnational migration, and economic development in Cuenca. Miles reckons with details that often escape less committed observers, suggesting that we learn a good deal more when we look back on whole lives. Practicing what she calls an ethnography of accrual, Miles takes a long view, where decades of seemingly disparate experiences coalesce into cultural transformation. Her approach not only reveals what change has meant in a major Latin American city but also serves as a reflection on ethnography itself
    Note: CHAPTER 1 The Ethnography of Accrual 1988– 2020 , CHAPTER 2 Making a Cosmopolitan City , CHAPTER 3 Single Women in the City , CHAPTER 4 Ni de Aqui, Ni de Allá , CHAPTER 5 The Gringo Invasion , CHAPTER 6 Thinking about Endings , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/326183
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    Oaxaca in motion : an ethnography of internal, transnational, and return migration (2022)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477326060
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (132 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván Oaxaca in Motion
    DDC: 304.80972/74
    Keywords: Migration, Internal Social aspects ; Return migration Social aspects ; Zapotec women Social life and customs ; Zapotec Indians Social life and customs ; Internal migrants Social life and customs ; Sex role ; Zapotec Indians Kinship ; Zapotec Indians Family relationships ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Migration, Internal ; Social aspects ; Return migration ; Social aspects ; Sex role ; Zapotec Indians ; Social life and customs ; Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Mexico ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Mexico ; Oaxaca (State) ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations --Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories --Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants --Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers --Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity --Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine --Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law --Conclusion --Notes --References --Index
    Abstract: "The book looks at the different experiences of migrants from the Zapotec community of Zegache, in Oaxaca, Mexico, especially women who have migrated to Mexico City and men who have moved to Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States. In particular, it focuses on gender and kinship and how different kinds of migration affect gender and kinship in different ways"--
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    Domestic Disturbances : Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292771321
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    DDC: 305.48868073
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Hispanic American women in literature ; Hispanic American women in mass media ; Hispanic American women Social conditions ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; Women household employees Social conditions ; Women immigrants Social conditions
    Abstract: The issue of immigration is one of the most hotly debated topics in the national arena, with everyone from right-wing pundits like Sarah Palin to alternative rockers like Zack de la Rocha offering their opinion. The traditional immigrant narrative that gained popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries continues to be used today in describing the process of the "Americanization" of immigrants. Yet rather than acting as an accurate representation of immigrant experiences, this common narrative of the "American Dream" attempts to ideologically contain those experiences within a story line that promotes the idea of achieving success through hard work and perseverance. In Domestic Disturbances, Irene Mata dispels the myth of the "shining city on the hill" and reveals the central truth of hidden exploitation that underlies the great majority of Chicana/Latina immigrant stories. Influenced by the works of Latina cultural producers and the growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship on gender, immigration, and labor, Domestic Disturbances suggests a new framework for looking at these immigrant and migrant stories, not as a continuation of a literary tradition, but instead as a specific Latina genealogy of immigrant narratives that more closely engage with the contemporary conditions of immigration. Through examination of multiple genres including film, theatre, and art, as well as current civil rights movements such as the mobilization around the DREAM Act, Mata illustrates the prevalence of the immigrant narrative in popular culture and the oppositional possibilities of alternative stories
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/771314
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    Mexican Americans and the Question of Race (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292754027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 pages)
    DDC: 305.868/72073
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Mexican Americans Race identity ; Mexican Americans Social conditions
    Abstract: With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of debate. Some believe Mexican Americans are following the path of European immigrants toward full assimilation into whiteness, while others argue that they remain racialized as nonwhite. Drawing on extensive interviews with Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in Texas, Dowling's research challenges common assumptions about what informs racial labeling for this population. Her interviews demonstrate that for Mexican Americans, racial ideology is key to how they assert their identities as either in or outside the bounds of whiteness. Emphasizing the link between racial ideology and racial identification, Dowling offers an insightful narrative that highlights the complex and highly contingent nature of racial identity
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/754010
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    Queer Brown Voices : Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477302330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    DDC: 306.76089/68073
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Gay activists ; Hispanic American sexual minorities Political activity ; Sexual minorities Identity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a "unified" agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, and homophobia that they experienced, LGBT Latinas/os organized themselves on local, state, and national levels, forming communities in which they could fight for equal rights while simultaneously staying true to both their ethnic and sexual identities. Yet histories of LGBT activism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s often reduce the role that Latinas/os played, resulting in misinformation, or ignore their work entirely, erasing them from history. Queer Brown Voices is the first book published to counter this trend, documenting the efforts of some of these LGBT Latina/o activists. Comprising essays and oral history interviews that present the experiences of fourteen activists across the United States and in Puerto Rico, the book offers a new perspective on the history of LGBT mobilization and activism. The activists discuss subjects that shed light not only on the organizations they helped to create and operate, but also on their broad-ranging experiences of being racialized and discriminated against, fighting for access to health care during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and struggling for awareness
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/302323
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    Nurturing Masculinities : Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477305546
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 pages)
    DDC: 394.1/20962
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Egyptians Food ; Food habits ; Food Social aspects ; Masculinity ; Sex role
    Abstract: Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patriarchy. Nurturing Masculinities dispels the illusion that Arab men can be adequately represented when we speak of them only in these terms. By bringing male perspectives into food studies, which typically focus on the roles of women in the production and distribution of food, Nefissa Naguib demonstrates how men interact with food, in both political and domestic spheres, and how these interactions reflect important notions of masculinity in modern Egypt. In this classic ethnography, narratives about men from a broad range of educational backgrounds, age groups, and social classes capture a holistic representation of masculine identity and food in modern Egypt on familial, local, and national levels. These narratives encompass a broad range of issues and experiences, including explorations of traditions surrounding food culture; displays of caregiving and love when men recollect the taste, feel, and fragrance of food as they discuss their desires to feed their families well and often; and the role that men, working to ensure the equitable distribution of food, played during the Islamist movement of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011. At the core of Nurturing Masculinities is the idea that food is a powerful marker of manhood, fatherhood, and family structure in contemporary Egypt, and by better understanding these foodways, we can better understand contemporary Egyptian society as a whole
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/305539
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    Viewpoints : Visual Anthropologists at Work (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292793675
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (431 pages)
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Visual anthropology
    Abstract: Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate and reliable work. Visual anthropology involves much more than media alone. This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field. It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes. Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book's fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world's continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/706712
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    Modernizing Patriarchy : The Politics of Women's Rights in Morocco (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477302453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    DDC: 305.409640905
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Morocco is hailed by academics, international NGO workers, and the media as a trailblazer in women's rights and legal reforms. The country is considered a model for other countries in the Middle East and North African region, but has Morocco made as much progress as experts and government officials claim? In Modernizing Patriarchy, Katja Žvan Elliott examines why women's rights advances are lauded in Morocco in theory but are often not recognized in reality, despite the efforts of both Islamist and secular feminists. In Morocco, female literacy rates remain among the lowest in the region; many women are victims of gender-based violence despite legal reforms; and girls as young as twelve are still engaged to adult men, despite numerous reforms. Based on extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork in Oued al-Ouliya, Modernizing Patriarchy offers a window into the life of Moroccan Muslim women who, though often young and educated, find it difficult to lead a dignified life in a country where they are expected to have only one destiny: that of wife and mother. Žvan Elliott exposes their struggles with modernity and the legal reforms that are supposedly ameliorating their lives. In a balanced approach, she also presents male voices and their reasons for criticizing the prevailing women's rights discourse. Compelling and insightful, Modernizing Patriarchy exposes the rarely talked about reality of Morocco's approach toward reform
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/302446
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    Of Beasts and Beauty : Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292745599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    DDC: 305.409861
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Beauty contests History ; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) History ; Nationalism History ; Women History
    Abstract: All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to and symbiotic relationship with violence and inequality in the country. Arguing that beauty holds not only social power but also economic and political power, he positions it as a pacific and inclusive influence in a country "ripped apart by violence, private armies, seizures of land, and abuse of governmental authority, one hoping that female beauty could save it from the ravages of the male beast." One specific means of obscuring those harsh realities is the beauty pageant, of which Colombia has over 300 per year. Stanfield investigates the ways in which these pageants reveal the effects of European modernity and notions of ethnicity on Colombian women, and how beauty for Colombians has become an external representation of order and morality that can counter the pathological effects of violence, inequality, and exclusion in their country
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    Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World : Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292792913
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/69097274091732
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Sociology Methodology ; Urban poor Case studies
    Abstract: Colonia Hermosa, now considered a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. The original residents came in search of transformation from migrants to urban citizens, struggling from rural poverty for the chance to be part of the global economy in Oaxaca. Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar charts the lives of a group of residents in Colonia Hermosa over a period of thirty years, as Mexico became more closely tied into the structures of global capital, and the residents of Colonia Hermosa struggled to survive. Residents shape their discussions within a larger narrative, and their talk is the language of the heroic individual, so necessary to the ideology and the functioning of capital. However, this logic only tenuously connects to the actual material circumstances of their lives. Mahar applies the theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to her data from Mexico in order to examine the class trajectories of migrant families over more than three decades. Through this investigation, Mahar adds an important intergenerational study to the existing body of literature on Oaxaca, particularly concerning the factors that have reshaped the lives of urban working poor families and have created a working-class fraction of globalized citizenship
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    DOI: 10.7560/721920
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    Undocumented Dominican Migration (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292745322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)
    DDC: 304.8097293
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Illegal aliens ; Immigrants ; Refugees
    Abstract: Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth treatment of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant smuggling operations, and U.S. border enforcement. It also explores several topics that are rare in migration studies. These include the psychology of migrant motivation, religious beliefs, corruption and impunity, procreation and parenting, compulsive recidivism after failed attempts, social values in relation to law, marriage fraud, and the use of false documents for air travel from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States. Frank Graziano's extensive fieldwork among migrants, smugglers, and federal agencies provides an authority and immediacy that brings the reader close to the migrants' experiences. The exhaustive research and multidisciplinary approach, highly readable narrative, and focus on lesser-known emigrants make Undocumented Dominican Migration an essential addition to public and academic debates about migration
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    DOI: 10.7560/725850
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    Cultures of migration : the global nature of contemporary mobility (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292735361
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (179 pages)
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Emigration and immigration Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Internationale Migration ; Migration ; Internationale Migration ; Migration
    Abstract: Around the globe, people leave their homes to better themselves, to satisfy needs, and to care for their families. They also migrate to escape undesirable conditions, ranging from a lack of economic opportunities to violent conflicts at home or in the community. Most studies of migration have analyzed the topic at either the macro level of national and global economic and political forces, or the micro level of the psychology of individual migrants. Few studies have examined the "culture of migration"-that is, the cultural beliefs and social patterns that influence people to move. Cultures of Migration combines anthropological and geographical sensibilities, as well as sociological and economic models, to explore the household-level decision-making process that prompts migration. The authors draw their examples not only from their previous studies of Mexican Oaxacans and Turkish Kurds but also from migrants from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific, and many parts of Asia. They examine social, economic, and political factors that can induce a household to decide to send members abroad, along with the cultural beliefs and traditions that can limit migration. The authors look at both transnational and internal migrations, and at shorter- and longer-term stays in the receiving location. They also consider the effect that migration has on those who remain behind. The authors' "culture of migration" model adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the cultural beliefs and social patterns associated with migration and will help specialists better respond to increasing human mobility
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    DOI: 10.7560/726840
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    Consuming Grief : Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    DDC: 394.9/089/9839
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Cannibalism ; Pakaasnovos Indians Funeral customs and rites
    Abstract: Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and transforming the corpse, which embodied ties between the living and the dead and was a focus of grief for the family of the deceased, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives. Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded. Beth Conklin explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. Her findings challenge many commonly held beliefs about cannibalism and show why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead
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    DOI: 10.7560/712324
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    Neo-Confederacy : A Critical Introduction (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292793873
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (354 pages)
    DDC: 305.809
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Conservatism ; Social movements ; Whites Race identity
    Abstract: A century and a half after the conclusion of the Civil War, the legacy of the Confederate States of America continues to influence national politics in profound ways. Drawing on magazines such as Southern Partisan and publications from the secessionist organization League of the South, as well as DixieNet and additional newsletters and websites, Neo-Confederacy probes the veneer of this movement to reveal goals far more extensive than a mere celebration of ancestry. Incorporating groundbreaking essays on the Neo-Confederacy movement, this eye-opening work encompasses such topics as literature and music; the ethnic and cultural claims of white, Anglo-Celtic southerners; gender and sexuality; the origins and development of the movement and its tenets; and ultimately its nationalization into a far-reaching factor in reactionary conservative politics. The first book-length study of this powerful sociological phenomenon, Neo-Confederacy raises crucial questions about the mainstreaming of an ideology that, founded on notions of white supremacy, has made curiously strong inroads throughout the realms of sexist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, and often "orthodox" Christian populations that would otherwise have no affiliation with the regionality or heritage traditionally associated with Confederate history
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    DOI: 10.7560/718371
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    Performing Kinship : Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292794405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    DDC: 305.48/8983230984
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Kinship ; Oral tradition ; Quechua women Social conditions
    Abstract: In the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such as sharing food, work, and stories create a sense of relatedness among people. Through these day-to-day interactions-as well as more unusual events-individuals negotiate the affective bonds and hierarchies of their relationships. In Performing Kinship, Krista E. Van Vleet reveals the ways in which relatedness is evoked, performed, and recast among the women of Sullk'ata. Portraying relationships of camaraderie and conflict, Van Vleet argues that narrative illuminates power relationships, which structure differences among women as well as between women and men. She also contends that in the Andes gender cannot be understood without attention to kinship. Stories such as that of the young woman who migrates to the city to do domestic work and later returns to the highlands voicing a deep ambivalence about the traditional authority of her in-laws provide enlightening examples of the ways in which storytelling enables residents of Sullk'ata to make sense of events and link themselves to one another in a variety of relationships. A vibrant ethnography, Performing Kinship offers a rare glimpse into an compelling world
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    DOI: 10.7560/717077
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    The Silver Cradle : Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and Other Mexican American Traditions (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292766075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 pages)
    DDC: 398.2/6/09764351
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Festivals ; Folklore ; Mexican Americans Folklore ; Mexican Americans Social life and customs
    Abstract: Originally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas. During the 1950s, Julia Nott Waugh recorded the performances of such seasonal and religious traditions as Las Posadas, Los Pastores, Las Calaveras, the Blessing of the Animals, the liturgical observances of Holy Week, and festivities of el diez y seis de septiembre (Mexican Independence Day), among others. Although years have passed and many of the details of observances have changed, the festival calendar and the joy and sincerity of the Mexican American people in honoring its customs and obligations have not disappeared. Now, in fact, a much wider population shares and appreciates the pageantry preserved for us by people like Graciana Reyes, in whose prized silver cradle the Christ Child slept every year at Christmas, and like Doroteo Domínguez, whose annual devotion to presenting a thousand-year-old pastoral epic in his back yard was legendary. Waugh has done much more than just open a window onto a charming past. She has captured for us one of the true gifts of our Mexican American heritage-the willingness to ritually celebrate the passage of time and to embellish the occasions with sensitivity and fervor. This book will appeal to the general reader as well as to those interested in folk traditions and Mexican American culture
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    DOI: 10.7560/733756
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    The Last Cannibals : A South American Oral History (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292769755
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    DDC: 398.2/0981
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Apalakiri Indians -- Folklore ; Apalakiri Indians -- History ; Apalakiri Indians Folklore ; Apalakiri Indians History ; Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley ; Discourse analysis, Narrative ; Ethnohistory -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley ; Ethnohistory ; Oral tradition -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley ; Oral tradition
    Abstract: An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge and the performance of historical narratives within their nonliterate society. This engaging book challenges the familiar view of biography as a strictly Western literary form. Of special interest are biographies of powerful warriors whose actions led to the emergence of a more recent social order based on restrained behaviors from an earlier time when people were said to be fierce and violent. From these stories, Basso explores how the Kalapalo remember and understand their past and what specific linguistic, psychological, and ideological materials they employ to construct their historical consciousness. Her book will be important reading in anthropology, folklore, linguistics, and South American studies
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    DOI: 10.7560/708181
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    The Kin Who Count : Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292757134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    DDC: 306.85/095691/3
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Families History 18th century ; Families History 19th century ; Families History ; Marriage - Syria - Aleppo - History ; Marriage History 18th century ; Marriage History 19th century ; Marriage History
    Abstract: The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged
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    DOI: 10.7560/752238
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    Imagining Literacy : Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798250
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    DDC: 302.2/244
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Culture ; Educational anthropology ; Literacy ; Multicultural education
    Abstract: Defining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona Fernandez argues, is a Eurocentric model ill-suited to a society composed of many distinct cultures and many local knowledges. In this book, Fernandez decodes the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy as she offers new ways of imagining and modeling mixed cultural and non-print literacies. In particular, she challenges the biases inherent in the "encyclopedias" of knowledge promulgated by E. D. Hirsch and others, by Disney World's EPCOT Center, and by the Smithsonian Institution. In contrast to these, she places the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose works model a cultural literacy that weaves connections across many local knowledges and many ways of knowing
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    Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios : The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292731790
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0972/74
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Artists ; Cultural pluralism ; Gays -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez ; Gays ; Gays ; Intellectuals ; Lesbians ; Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions ; People with disabilities ; Poor -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez ; Poor ; Poor ; Sex workers ; Social groups -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez ; Social groups ; Social groups
    Abstract: Diversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalized-the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people
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    On the Edge of the Law : Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (367 pages)
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Crime ; Crime ; Labor ; Labor ; Mexicans Social conditions ; Mexicans Social conditions ; Subculture ; Subculture
    Abstract: The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rapid population growth, the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. The region has the highest rate of drug seizures in the United States, yet its violent crime rate is well below national and state averages. The Valley's colonias are home to the poorest residents in the nation, but their rates of home ownership and intact two-parent families are among the highest in the country for low-income residential areas. What explains these apparently irreconcilable facts? Since 1982, faculty and students associated with the Borderlife Research Project at the University of Texas-Pan American have interviewed thousands of Valley residents to investigate and describe the cultural and social life along the South Texas-Northern Mexico border. In this book, Borderlife researchers clarify why Valley culture presents so many apparent contradictions as they delve into issues that are "on the edge of the law"-traditional health care and other cultural beliefs and practices, displaced and undocumented workers, immigration enforcement, drug smuggling, property crime, criminal justice, and school dropout rates. The researchers' findings make it plain that while these issues present major challenges for the governments of the United States and Mexico, their effects and contradictions are especially acute on the border, where residents must daily negotiate between two very different economies; health care, school, and criminal justice systems; and worldviews
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    Globalization in Rural Mexico : Three Decades of Change (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292795464
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (205 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/27247
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Clothing trade ; Globalization
    Abstract: When the ever-intensifying global marketplace "modernizes" rural communities, who stands to gain? Can local residents most impacted by changes to their social fabric ever recover or even identify what has been lost? Frances Abrahamer Rothstein uses thirty years of sustained anthropological fieldwork in the rural Mexican community of San Cosme Mazatecochco to showcase globalization's complexities and contradictions. Rothstein's lucid work chronicles the changes in production, consumption, and social relations during three distinct periods: the Mexican "miracle," when economic development fueled mobility for a large segment of the population, including San Cosme's worker-peasants; the lost decade of the 1980s, when much of what had been gained was lost; and the recent period of trade liberalization and globalization, considered by many in Mexico and beyond as a panacea and a disaster at the same time. After Mexico's textile industry decline in the late 1980s, some families of former textile workers in San Cosme opened home workshops-talleres-and a small-scale, textile-based economy took root. These families, who managed to prosper through their own trade and industry, demonstrate that those who rely on consumer demand for their livelihood need not always follow the dictate of the marketplace, but rather can position themselves assertively to influence alternative economic possibilities held close to their culture. Employing rich ethnography and broad analysis, Rothstein focuses on how everyday life has been transformed by these processes, but shows also how important continuities with the past persist. She strikes a delicate balance between firmly grounded scientific study and a deep compassion for the subjects of her work, while challenging contemporary views of globalization and consumption
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    The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs : Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292796737
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    DDC: 305.897/073/09041
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Assimilation (Sociology) History ; Indians in popular culture ; Indians of North America Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America Government relations ; Indians of North America Politics and government
    Abstract: The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English language, Christianity, and the ways of white people. Federal officials believed that these policies would assimilate Native Americans into white society within a generation or two. But even after decades of governmental efforts to obliterate Indian culture, Native Americans refused to vanish into the mainstream, and tribal identities remained intact. This revisionist history reveals how Native Americans' sense of identity and "peoplehood" helped them resist and eventually defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society during the Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). Tom Holm discusses how Native Americans, though effectively colonial subjects without political power, nonetheless maintained their group identity through their native languages, religious practices, works of art, and sense of homeland and sacred history. He also describes how Euro-Americans became increasingly fascinated by and supportive of Native American culture, spirituality, and environmental consciousness. In the face of such Native resiliency and non-Native advocacy, the government's assimilation policy became irrelevant and inevitably collapsed. The great confusion in Indian affairs during the Progressive Era, Holm concludes, ultimately paved the way for Native American tribes to be recognized as nations with certain sovereign rights
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    Homesteads Ungovernable : Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860 (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292796492
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.85/09764/09034
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Domestic relations History 19th century ; Families 19th century ; Frontier and pioneer life 19th century ; Sex role History 19th century
    Abstract: When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital irregularities, but in fact Houston's legal and extralegal marriages hardly set him apart from many other Texas men at a time when illicit and unstable unions were common in the yet-to-be-formed Lone Star State. In this book, Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823-1860). He finds that the marriages of settlers in Texas were typically born of economic necessity and that, with few white women available, Anglo men frequently partnered with Native American, Tejano, and black women. While identifying a multicultural array of gender roles that combined with law and frontier disorder to destabilize the marriages of homesteaders, he also reveals how harsh living conditions, land policies, and property rules prompted settling spouses to cooperate for survival and mutual economic gain. Of equal importance, he reveals how evolving Texas law reinforced the substantial autonomy of Anglo women and provided them material rewards, even as it ensured that cross-racial sexual relationships and their reproductive consequences comported with slavery and a regime that dispossessed and subordinated free blacks, Native Americans, and Tejanos
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    DOI: 10.7560/712270
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    The culture of migration in Southern Mexico (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292797338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 304.8097274
    Keywords: Geschichte 1995-2004 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Migration, Internal; Mexico; Oaxaca (State) ; Migration ; USA ; Oaxaca ; Oaxaca ; Migration ; USA ; Geschichte 1995-2004
    Abstract: Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some who leave their rural communities go only as far as the state capital, while others migrate to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. Most send money back to their communities, and many return to their homes after a few years. Migration offers Oaxacans economic opportunities that are not always available locally-but it also creates burdens for those who stay behind. This book explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural Oaxacans to migrate, the historical and contemporary patterns of their migration, the effects of migration on families and communities, and the economic, cultural, and social reasons why many Oaxacans choose not to migrate. Jeffrey Cohen draws on fieldwork and survey data from twelve communities in the central valleys of Oaxaca to give an encompassing view of the factors that drive migration and determine its outcomes. He demonstrates conclusively that, while migration is an effective way to make a living, no single model can explain the patterns of migration in southern Mexico
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    DOI: 10.7560/705708
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    The Mexican Aristocracy : An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000 (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (398 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/2/09720904
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Aristocracy (Social class) History 20th century
    Abstract: The Mexican aristocracy today is simultaneously an anachronism and a testimony to the persistence of social institutions. Shut out from political power by the democratization movements of the twentieth century, stripped of the basis of its great wealth by land reforms in the 1930s, the aristocracy nonetheless maintains a strong sense of group identity through the deeply held belief that their ancestors were the architects and rulers of Mexico for nearly four hundred years. This expressive ethnography describes the transformation of the Mexican aristocracy from the onset of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when the aristocracy was unquestionably Mexico's highest-ranking social class, until the end of the twentieth century, when it had almost ceased to function as a superordinate social group. Drawing on extensive interviews with group members, Nutini maps out the expressive aspects of aristocratic culture in such areas as perceptions of class and race, city and country living, education and professional occupations, political participation, religion, kinship, marriage and divorce, and social ranking. His findings explain why social elites persist even when they have lost their status as ruling and political classes and also illuminate the relationship between the aristocracy and Mexico's new political and economic plutocracy
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    DOI: 10.7560/701618
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    Intercultural Communication : A Practical Guide (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    MR 7100
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Intercultural communication
    Abstract: Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries. To help you avoid such damaging gaffes, Tracy Novinger has compiled this authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following "the rules" that govern cultures, demonstrating how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico. Novinger begins by explaining how a major proportion of communication within a culture occurs nonverbally through behavior and manners, shared attitudes, common expectations, and so on. Then, using real-life examples and anecdotes, she pinpoints the commonly occurring obstacles to communication that can arise when cultures differ in their communication techniques. She shows how these obstacles come into play in contacts between the U.S. and Mexico and demonstrates that mastering the unspoken rules of Mexican culture is a key to cementing business and social relationships. Novinger concludes with nine effective, reliable principles for successfully communicating across cultures
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    DOI: 10.7560/755703
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    Showing Off : The Geltung Hypothesis (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292799943
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Attention-seeking ; Communication ; Genetic psychology ; Human geography Effect of human beings on ; Nature ; Prestige
    Abstract: Hardly a place exists on earth that has not been shaped in some way by human beings. Every day we modify and even sweep away natural landscapes as we build places to live and work. But why we react and interact as social beings intent on exercising ecological dominance poses an endlessly compelling puzzle for everyone from novelists to geographers. In Showing Off, distinguished geographer Philip L. Wagner offers a persuasive hypothesis. Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, he asserts that the strive for Geltung-personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence-shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human beings. Wagner applies the Geltung hypothesis to a wide range of human activities from falling in love and spreading gossip to buying goods and making war. His examples demonstrate how communication and display-"showing off"-impel geographic change, as they reveal how and why people with the most Geltung tend to occupy the most desirable places. This broad vision draws insights from many fields. A major contribution to cultural geography, the book also sheds new light on individual psychology and psychopathology and suggests new themes for cognitive science and even philosophy. Sure to stir lively debate in many circles, it will be provocative reading for everyone fascinated by the continuum between people and places
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    DOI: 10.7560/791022
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    Seeing and Being Seen : The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292795679
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.897/42072813
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Indians in motion pictures ; Kekchi Indians Ethnic identity ; Kekchi Indians History ; Kekchi Indians Social conditions ; Motion pictures in ethnology ; Video recording in ethnology
    Abstract: The practice of morality and the formation of identity among an indigenous Latin American culture are framed in a pioneering ethnography of sight that attempts to reverse the trend of anthropological fieldwork and theory overshadowing one another. In this vital and richly detailed work, methodology and theory are treated as complementary partners as the author explores the dynamic Mayan customs of the Q'eqchi' people living in the cultural crossroads of Livingston, Guatemala. Here, Q'eqchi', Ladino, and Garifuna (Caribbean-coast Afro-Indians) societies interact among themselves and with others ranging from government officials to capitalists to contemporary tourists. The fieldwork explores the politics of sight and incorporates a video camera operated by multiple people-the author and the Q'eqchi' people themselves-to watch unobtrusively the traditions, rituals, and everyday actions that exemplify the long-standing moral concepts guiding the Q'eqchi' in their relationships and tribulations. Sharing the camera lens, as well as the lens of ethnographic authority, allows the author to slip into the world of the Q'eqchi' and capture their moral, social, political, economic, and spiritual constructs shaped by history, ancestry, external forces, and time itself. A comprehensive history of the Q'eqchi' illustrates how these former plantation laborers migrated to lands far from their Mayan ancestral homes to co-exist as one of several competing cultures, and what impact this had on maintaining continuity in their identities, moral codes of conduct, and perception of the changing outside world. With the innovative use of visual methods and theories, the author's reflexive, sensory-oriented ethnographic approach makes this a study that itself becomes a reflection of the complex set of social structures embodied in its subject
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    DOI: 10.7560/713482
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    Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
    DDC: 305.3/0972
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Aztec women ; Indians of Central America Social life and customs ; Indians of Mexico Social life and customs ; Maya women ; Sex role ; Sex role
    Abstract: Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playing male and female roles in state ceremonies. This landmark book offers the first comprehensive description and analysis of gender and power relations in prehispanic Mesoamerica from the Formative Period Olmec world (ca. 1500-500 BC) through the Postclassic Maya and Aztec societies of the sixteenth century AD. Using approaches from contemporary gender theory, Rosemary Joyce explores how Mesoamericans created human images to represent idealized notions of what it meant to be male and female and to depict proper gender roles. She then juxtaposes these images with archaeological evidence from burials, house sites, and body ornaments, which reveals that real gender roles were more fluid and variable than the stereotyped images suggest
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    DOI: 10.7560/740648
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    Sista, Speak! : Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    MS 3000
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; African American women Biography ; African American women Education ; African American women Social conditions ; African Americans Languages ; African Americans Race identity ; Language and culture ; Literacy Social aspects
    Abstract: The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women-her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language. Making comparisons and contrasts among them, she shows how, even within a single family, differences in age, educational opportunities, and social circumstances can lead to widely different abilities and comfort in using language to navigate daily life. Her research also adds a new dimension to our understanding of African American English, which has been little studied in relation to women
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    DOI: 10.7560/747289
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    Folklore by the Fireside : Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292772267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    DDC: 394
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom-from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern. Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood, courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore. This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology and theoretical richness
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    DOI: 10.7560/724303
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    Out of the Cloister : A Study of Organizational Dilemmas (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292772205
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
    DDC: 306/.6
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Since Vatican Council II, convent walls have crumbled. and the structures that once separated nuns from the world are gone. Out of the Cloister is an organizational analysis of the structural and ideological changes that took place in Catholic religious orders of women in the United States. Many nuns today dress in street clothes, choose their own jobs, have a degree of financial independence from the larger order, and may not be recognized by their coworkers as nuns. What might once have been defined as a "total institution" has become, within the span of a few years, a type of voluntary organization where members join together loosely to achieve a common purpose. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh approaches religious orders as utopian communities and examines how contact with the larger society has affected the distinctiveness and solidarity that hold such groups together.
    Abstract: She analyzes the patterns occurring within orders with particular focus on the relationship between organizational change and membership loss. Since changes have been introduced into religious orders at different rates, and since orders vary in such characteristics as size and educational level of members, it is possible to analyze relationships between exit rates and other organizational variables. The complex interplay of education and membership loss is one of the organizational dilemmas the author examines. Although she is no longer a part of organized religious life, Ebaugh spent ten years as a nun and during that time collected much of the data presented in this book. As a nun she also helped conduct a number of self-studies and evaluations involved with the post-Vatican II reform and renewal efforts. She is therefore in the unique position of a researcher who collected data as an insider and analyzed it as an outsider.
    Abstract: This book is one of the first systematic, empirical studies of religious orders in the United States and one of the few sociological investigations of convents and the changes occurring within them
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    DOI: 10.7560/760073
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    Decolonizing the Sodomite : Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292796249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    DDC: 306.76/6/08998323
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Incas Sexual behavior ; Indian gays Sexual behavior ; Indian gays History ; Indians of South America Colonization ; Indians of South America Sexual behavior ; Male homosexuality History ; Male homosexuality History ; Sex customs History ; Sex customs History
    Abstract: Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments of myths and transcribed oral accounts. Ritual performance by cross-dressed men symbolically created a third space of mediation that invoked the mythic androgyne of the pre-Hispanic Andes. The missionaries and civil authorities colonizing the Andes deemed these performances transgressive and sodomitical. In this book, Michael J. Horswell examines alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world, and uses the concept of the third gender to reconsider some fundamental paradigms of Andean culture. By deconstructing what literary tropes of sexuality reveal about Andean pre-Hispanic and colonial indigenous culture, he provides an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish often referred to as "sodomites." Horswell traces the origin of the dominant tropes of masculinist sexuality from canonical medieval texts to early modern Spanish secular and moralist literature produced in the context of material persecution of effeminates and sodomites in Spain. These values traveled to the Andes and were used as powerful rhetorical weapons in the struggle to justify the conquest of the Incas
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    DOI: 10.7560/709690
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    Remembering Victoria : A Tragic Nahuat Love Story (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292794726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (154 pages)
    DDC: 305.897/45207248
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdán, Mexico, with her infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla, was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in violence that broke out soon after the Mexican army chopped down a cornfield that had been planted on an unused cattle pasture by forty Nahuat villagers. In this anthropological account, based on years of fieldwork in Huitzilan, James M. Taggart turns to Victoria's husband, Nacho Angel Hernández, to try to understand how a community based on respect and cooperation descended into horrific violence and fratricide. When the army chopped down the cornfield at Talcuaco, the war that broke out resulted in the complete breakdown of the social and moral order of the community. At its heart, this is a tragic love story, chronicling Nacho's feelings for Victoria spanning their courtship, marriage, family life, and her death. Nacho delivered his testimonio to the author in Nahuat, making it one of the few autobiographical love stories told in an Amerindian language, and a very rare account of love among the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. There is almost nothing in the literature on how a man develops and changes his feelings for his wife over his lifetime. This study contributes to the anthropology of emotion by focusing on how the Nahuat attempt to express love through language and ritual
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    DOI: 10.7560/716865
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    Modernization and the Working Class : The Politics of Legitimacy (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292769472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 306/.2
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Legitimacy of governments ; Political sociology ; Working class Political activity ; Working class--Political activity
    Abstract: This is a fascinating inquiry into the factors that determine the acceptance or rejection of capitalism by the industrial working class. Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order. Propositions about the interaction between established elites and emerging working classes are illustrated with three typical cases: Disraelian Britain, Bismarckian Germany, and Peronist Argentina. From the contrasting theories of Marx and Bakunin, the author derives hypotheses concerning the position of the working class in the economy and the consequences this has for legitimacy. He finds that countries at middle levels of industrial development-mostly latecomers to industrialization in Southern Europe and advanced areas of Latin America-have the greatest difficulty in establishing capitalism as a legitimate social order. They are advanced enough to have a large working class, yet underdeveloped enough to have a dissatisfied one
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    DOI: 10.7560/750654
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    Craft and the Kingly Ideal : Art, Trade, and Power (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292758223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from? In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from "afar." She argues that fine artisanship and long-distance trade, both of which are more available to powerful elites than to ordinary people, are means of creating or acquiring tangible objects that embody intangible powers and energies from the cosmological realms of gods, ancestors, or heroes. Through the objects, these qualities become available to human society and confer honor and power on their possessors. Helms' novel approach equates trade with artistry and emphasizes acquisition rather than distribution. She rejects the classic Western separation between economics and aesthetics and offers a new paradigm for understanding traditional societies that will be of interest to all anthropologists and archaeologists
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    DOI: 10.7560/730748
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    The Territorial Experience : Human Ecology as Symbolic Interaction (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292772243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: During the 1920s, the Chicago school of sociology developed an ecological orientation toward the study of the city. At the same time, other Chicago scholars developed the social psychological approach that was to be named symbolic interactionism. Over fifty years later, Gordon Ericksen examines the best of these two schools to present a revisionist human ecology. In The Territorial Experience, he gives us a fresh perspective on human ecology by reconstructing the discipline in a way that genuinely reflects the realities of our territorial life. Ericksen's symbolic interactionist approach to the spatial world is based on the appreciation of humans as the creative artists they are, as designers and builders of their environment. Exploring the symbolic meanings attached to space and territory, he challenges the orthodox in human ecology by introducing hypotheses and conceptual tools of analysis which link spatial facts to human motivations and meanings. With people living in a habitat which they have largely shaped for themselves-a world of airports, shopping malls, retirement villages, where human spaces convey human messages-Ericksen demands that we examine what we have done with our environment in order to survive and prosper. This major contribution to human ecology will be of importance to specialists and lay readers in the fields of sociology, social psychology, geography, city and regional planning, urban affairs, and economics. Showing how humankind speaks in and through its physical setting, The Territorial Experience is a bench mark in communications theory
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    DOI: 10.7560/780385
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    Rancheros in Chicagoacán : Language and Identity in a Transnational Community (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292795624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
    DDC: 306.44089/68
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Anthropological linguistics ; Anthropological linguistics ; Group identity ; Mexican Americans Languages ; Spanish language Social aspects
    Abstract: Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico, falling between the indigenous (Indian) rural Mexicans and the more educated city-dwelling Mexicans. In addition to making up an estimated twenty percent of the population of Mexico, rancheros may comprise the majority of Mexican immigrants to the United States. Although often mestizo (mixed race), rancheros generally identify as non-indigenous, and many identify primarily with the Spanish side of their heritage. They are active seekers of opportunity, and hence very mobile. Rancheros emphasize progress and a self-assertive individualism that contrasts starkly with the common portrayal of rural Mexicans as communal and publicly deferential to social superiors. Marcia Farr studied, over the course of fifteen years, a transnational community of Mexican ranchero families living both in Chicago and in their village-of-origin in Michoacán, Mexico. For this ethnolinguistic portrait, she focuses on three culturally salient styles of speaking that characterize rancheros: franqueza (candid, frank speech); respeto (respectful speech); and relajo (humorous, disruptive language that allows artful verbal critique of the social order maintained through respeto). She studies the construction of local identity through a community's daily talk, and provides the first book-length examination of language and identity in transnational Mexicans. In addition, Farr includes information on the history of rancheros in Mexico, available for the first time in English, as well as an analysis of the racial discourse of rancheros within the context of the history of race and ethnicity in Mexico and the United States. This work provides groundbreaking insight into the lives of rancheros, particularly as seen from their own perspectives
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/713468
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    Women and Social Movements in Latin America : Power from Below (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292799899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/098
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Feminism Case studies ; Social movements Case studies ; Women in development Case studies ; Women Interviews ; Women's rights Case studies
    Abstract: Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/777156
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    Radical cartographies : participatory mapmaking from Latin America (2020)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477320884
    Language: English
    Pages: 242 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2089/0098
    RVK:
    RV 10856
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    Keywords: Indianer ; Schwarze ; Kartografie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Human geography ; Cartography Social aspects ; Communities ; Indigenous peoples Ethnic identity ; Ethnosociology ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Radical Cartographies : Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America (2020)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477320891 , 9781477320907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Radical cartographies
    DDC: 304.2098
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    RV 10856
    Keywords: Human geography-Latin America ; Cartography-Social aspects-Latin America ; Communities-Latin America ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Indianer ; Schwarze ; Kartografie ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: Intro -- Introduction: Radical Social Cartographies (Bjørn Sletto) -- Part I -- 1. Oral Narratives in the Rincón Zapoteco: A Cartography of Processes (Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz) -- 2. Social Polygraphy: Territory as a Living Memorial to Culture and Nature (Álvaro César Velasco Álvarez) -- 3. Emulating Kuyujani: Boundary Making in the Caura River Basin, Venezuela (Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey) -- Part II -- 4. Revealing Territorial Illusions and Political Fictions through Participatory Cartography (Wendy Pineda) -- 5. Mapuche Cartography: Defending Ixofillmogen (Pablo Mansilla Quiñones and Miguel Melin Pehuen) -- 6. The Ethnocartography of Sumak Allpa: The Kichwa Indigenous Community of Pastaza, Ecuador (Alfredo Vitery and Alexandra Lamiña) -- 7. Social Cartography and Territorial Planning in Robles, Colombia (Carlos Alberto González) -- Part III -- 8. New Social Cartography and Ethnographic Practice (Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida) -- 9. Social Cartography and the Struggle for Multiethnic, Urban Indigenous Lands: The Case of the Beija-Flor Aldeia in Rio Preto da Eva, Brazil (Emmanuel de Almeida Farias Júnior) -- 10. Participatory Cultural Mapping in Nvwken, Mapuce Territory, Argentina: Exploring Other Forms of Territorial Representation (María Laura Nahuel) -- 11. Political Appropriation of Social Cartography in Defense of Quilombola Territories in Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil (Davi Pereira Júnior) -- Commentary: What Sort of Territory? What Sort of Map? (Joe Bryan) -- Afterword (Charles R. Hale) -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Infrastructures of race : concentration and biopolitics in colonial Mexico (2017)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477312445 , 9781477312605
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 221 Seiten
    Series Statement: Border Hispanisms
    DDC: 305.800972
    RVK:
    NN 1710
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1540-1810 ; Spanier ; Indianer ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenmischung ; Mexiko
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    Invisible in Austin : Life and Labor in an American City (2015)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477303665
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 976.4/31
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    MS 3300
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    MS 6440
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    MS 1235
    Keywords: Randgruppe ; Armut ; Minderheit ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Marginality, Social ; Minorities ; Poor ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Austin, Tex. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance in contemporary Austin. Rich and poor residents lead increasingly separate lives as growing socioeconomic inequality underscores residential, class, racial, and ethnic segregation. In Invisible in Austin, the award-winning sociologist Javier Auyero and a team of graduate students explore the lives of those working at the bottom of the social order: house cleaners, office-machine repairers, cab drivers, restaurant cooks and dishwashers, exotic dancers, musicians, and roofers, among others. Recounting their subjects' life stories with empathy and sociological insight, the authors show us how these lives are driven by a complex mix of individual and social forces. These poignant stories compel us to see how poor people who provide indispensable services for all city residents struggle daily with substandard housing, inadequate public services and schools, and environmental risks. Timely and essential reading, Invisible in Austin makes visible the growing gap between rich and poor that is reconfiguring the cityscape of one of America's most dynamic places, as low-wage workers are forced to the social and symbolic margins.
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    DOI: 10.7560/303641
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/303641
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    Guatemala-U.S. Migration : Transforming Regions (2015)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292763159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 304.8 7307281
    Keywords: Guatemalan Americans Social conditions ; Guatemalans Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions is a pioneering, comprehensive, and multifaceted study of Guatemalan migration to the United States from the late 1970s to the present. It analyzes this migration in a regional context including Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. This book illuminates the perilous passage through Mexico for Guatemalan migrants, as well as their settlement in various U.S. venues. Moreover, it builds on existing theoretical frameworks and breaks new ground by analyzing the construction and transformations of this migration region and transregional dimensions of migration. Seamlessly blending multiple sociological perspectives, this book addresses the experiences of both Maya and ladino Guatemalan migrants, incorporating gendered as well as ethnic and class dimensions of migration. It spans the most violent years of the civil war and the postwar years in Guatemala, hence including both refugees and labor migrants. The demographic chapter delineates five phases of Guatemalan migration to the United States since the late 1970s, with immigrants experiencing both inclusion and exclusion very dramatically during the most recent phase, in the early twenty-first century. This book also features an innovative study of Guatemalan migrant rights organizing in the United States and transregionally in Guatemala/Central America and Mexico. The two contrasting in-depth case studies of Guatemalan communities in Houston and San Francisco elaborate in vibrant detail the everyday experiences and evolving stories of the immigrants' lives.
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    DOI: 10.7560/760608
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/760608
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    Vital enemies : slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life (2009)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292718883 , 9780292719132
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 280 pages , Illustrations
    Edition: 1. edition
    DDC: 970.01
    RVK:
    NW 8295
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    LB 50620
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Indianer ; Sklaverei
    Abstract: Capturing societies -- Captive slaves -- Servant groups -- Tributary populations -- Markers of servitude -- Servile obligations -- Dependent status -- Civilizing the other -- Warring against the other
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Vital Enemies : Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life (2009)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780292793811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    DDC: 970.01
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    NW 8295
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    LB 50620
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Indianer ; Sklaverei
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    Great Confusion in Indian Affairs : Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era (2005)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780292796737
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
    DDC: 305.89707309041
    Keywords: USA ; Geschichte 1880-1920 ; Indianer ; Indianerpolitik ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Akkulturation
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    Social Stratification and Mobility in Central Veracruz (2005)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292796768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.5/12/072
    Keywords: Social mobility ; Social mobility ; Social stratification ; Social stratification ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Since the Revolution of 1910, Mexican society has undergone a profound transformation, characterized by the disempowerment of the landed aristocracy and the rise of a new ruling class of plutocrats and politicians; the development of a middle class of white-collar professionals; and the upward mobility of formerly disenfranchised Indians who have become urban, working-class Mestizos. Indeed, Mexico's class system today increasingly resembles that of Western industrialized nations, proving that, while further democratic reforms are needed, the Revolution initiated an ongoing process of change that has created a more egalitarian society in Mexico with greater opportunities for social advancement. This authoritative ethnography examines the transformation of social classes in the Córdoba-Orizaba region during the latter half of the twentieth century to create a model of provincial social stratification in Mexico. Hugo Nutini focuses on the increased social mobility that has affected all classes of society, especially the rural Indians who have taken advantage of education, job opportunities, and contact with the wider world to achieve Mestizo status. He also traces the transfer of power that followed the demise of the hacienda system, as well as the growing importance of the middle class. This description and analysis of the provincial social stratification system complements the work Nutini has done on the national class system, centered in Mexico City, to offer a comprehensive picture of social stratification and mobility in Mexico today.
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    DOI: 10.7560/706958
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/706958
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    Indigenous movements, self-representation, and the State in Latin America (2002)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : [ProQuest]
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    ISBN: 9780292704244
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages) , Illustrations, maps
    Edition: First edition.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Indigenous movements, self-representation, and the State in Latin America
    DDC: 323.1198
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    Keywords: Indianer ; Minderheitenfrage ; Soziale Bewegung ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies : enduring veterans, 1800 to the present (1999)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292752122 , 9780292797819
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 495 p.
    Edition: 1st ed
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.897
    RVK:
    HD 370
    Keywords: Indianer ; Apache Indians Societies, etc ; Comanche Indians Societies, etc ; Indians of North America Ethnic identity ; Kiowa Indians Societies, etc ; Secret societies ; Apachen ; Comanchen ; Militär ; Kiowa ; Organisation ; Geschichte ; Apachen ; Militär ; Organisation ; Geschichte ; Comanchen ; Militär ; Organisation ; Geschichte ; Kiowa ; Militär ; Organisation ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-490) and index
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    The Mexican Urban Household : Organizing for Self-Defense (1990)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292767928
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.85/0972/091732
    Keywords: Cost and standard of living ; Household surveys ; Households ; Urban poor ; Work and family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: The sufferings of "ordinary" people under harsh economic conditions can eventually lead to the fall of governments. Given this fact, it becomes important to know how "ordinary" people live-what privations they suffer and what strategies they use to survive in times of economic crisis. The Mexican Urban Household provides this information for Mexico near the end of the twentieth century. Mexico is now a predominantly urban nation, and this study is the definitive work on the strategies of self-defense of its urban households. It is based on surveys of nearly 10,000 households, conducted during twenty years of field work in five very different cities, with the help of a staff of more than twenty Mexican social scientists, engineers, architects, and social workers. Far from being a compilation of undigested statistics, however, The Mexican Urban Household uses its rich data to vividly reveal how Mexican families use their every resource to defend themselves against a political and economic system that overwhelms and exploits them. It describes how families band together, sometimes with three generations in one small house, to minimize expenses and pool resources. It explores the limited range of available jobs, from secure but scarce bureaucratic positions to more common and less reliable jobs in blue-collar industries and the informal economy. And, most important, it traces the high cost to families, particularly to women, of the endless struggle to make ends meet. These important findings outline the dimensions of the economic crisis for ordinary Mexicans. It will be crucial reading not only for everyone interested in the future of Mexico but also for students of development throughout the Third World.
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    DOI: 10.7560/785212
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/785212
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    The Eighth Day : Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy (1988)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292736429
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 573.2
    Keywords: Force and energy ; Self-organizing systems ; Social evolution ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication, civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a central place.
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    DOI: 10.7560/720602
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/720602
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