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Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, Ageeth Sluis Mar 2013

Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Indigenismo From Below? Carlos Castaneda, New Age Anthropology And Identity Politics, Ageeth Sluis Jan 2013

Indigenismo From Below? Carlos Castaneda, New Age Anthropology And Identity Politics, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

This paper explores the intersections between Carlos Castaneda’s work on shamanism, indigenismo, and larger changes within the field of anthropology from the 1960s to 1980s. Castaneda introduced a large readership to Mexico at a time when the Americas saw pronounced socio-political and cultural changes. Despite criticism by fellow anthropologists, Castaneda's bestselling books became instrumental in constructing new indigenous identities, a magical Mexico, and new directions in anthropology. This paper seeks to understand Castaneda within a larger historical context of the historical trajectories of indigenismo and changes in gender and race identity politics both in Mexico and the U.S. due to …


Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis Jul 2011

Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

If pornography proves a problematic avenue within women’s bid for sexual liberation and equality today, how then has this historically been constructed? In an attempt to determine the role of pornography within articulations of women’s sexual (in)equality, I use a banned pornographic magazine published in 1930s Mexico as the starting point for a broader examination of the relationships between female sexual visibility and modernity, and sexual normativity and the state. Employing the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy, I trace popular representations of female sexuality as well as civic discourse on sexual prohibitions through space (from the USA and Europe to Mexico) …


Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis Mar 2011

Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Beauty, Bodies, Physical Culture: Aesthetics, Architecture And Art In Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis Oct 2010

Beauty, Bodies, Physical Culture: Aesthetics, Architecture And Art In Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda, New Men, And The Politicization Of Indigenous Identity During The Cold War, Ageeth Sluis Dec 2009

Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda, New Men, And The Politicization Of Indigenous Identity During The Cold War, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda, Camposcape, Heteropia And Masculinity During The Age Of Sexual Revolution, Ageeth Sluis Jun 2009

Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda, Camposcape, Heteropia And Masculinity During The Age Of Sexual Revolution, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Bodies And Identities: Further Notes On Gendering The Mexican Revolution, Ageeth Sluis May 2008

Bodies And Identities: Further Notes On Gendering The Mexican Revolution, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Vea! Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Acting Across The Sexual Frontier, Ageeth Sluis Sep 2007

Vea! Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Acting Across The Sexual Frontier, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Revistas Pornograficas Y La Modernidad Mundial En La Cuidad De México, 1920 -1940, Ageeth Sluis Jun 2006

Revistas Pornograficas Y La Modernidad Mundial En La Cuidad De México, 1920 -1940, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Vea! Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Acting Out The City, Ageeth Sluis Apr 2006

Vea! Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Acting Out The City, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda And The Construction Of An Indigenous Masculinity At The End Of The Mexican Miracle, Ageeth Sluis Feb 2006

Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda And The Construction Of An Indigenous Masculinity At The End Of The Mexican Miracle, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


From Diva To Deco Body: Visual Culture And The Daily Performance Of Gender In Mexico City, 1915-1935, Ageeth Sluis Sep 2004

From Diva To Deco Body: Visual Culture And The Daily Performance Of Gender In Mexico City, 1915-1935, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis Feb 2003

Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


X-Ray Of The Market: (En)Gendering Public Space In The Revolutionary City, Ageeth Sluis Mar 2002

X-Ray Of The Market: (En)Gendering Public Space In The Revolutionary City, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


The Marvelous Invention: The Construction Of Gender And Race In Postrevolutionary Mexican Radio, 1920-1940, Ageeth Sluis Feb 2001

The Marvelous Invention: The Construction Of Gender And Race In Postrevolutionary Mexican Radio, 1920-1940, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.