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100 Papitos In Old Havana’: Entrepreneurial Heritage, ‘Desarrollo Integral’ And Self-Care In Late Socialist Cuba, Matthew Hill, Maki Tanaka

Matthew J. Hill

No abstract provided.

Contesting Identities: The Mijikenda And Their Neighbors In Kenyan Coastal Society, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda Giles

Rebecca Gearhart

Journalism In A Pr World, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Mike Niman discusses the future of journalism in a PR-dominated communication environment. In particular, he examines the migration of talent from journalism to the PR industry, the collapse of mainstream journalism and the role of an emergent alternative media as American journalism goes through metamorphosis from what it was to what it could become. Journalism is a social good that should equip people to understand and resist spin. Niman argues that mainstream American journalism, rather than rising to this challenge, has transparently succumbed to serving as an arm of the corporate PR industry, thus laying the groundwork for its own …

Corn Is Our Blood: Culture And Ethnic Identity In A Contemporary Aztec Indian Village., Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

This book [first published in 1991 by University of Oklahoma Press] discusses dynamics of culture and ethnic identity among Nahua Indians who claim a direct ethnic descent from the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. It shows that the Nahua exhibit linguistic and cultural features that distinguish them from many other ethnic groups of modern Mexico, despite many years of Spanish conquest and a series of government attempts to incorporate them into the dominant Mestizo culture. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author identifies two broad local and national processes that accounted for this continuity. One of these concerns participation in traditional …

"What Happened To The Aztec Gods After The Conquest?", Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

No abstract provided.

"Culture Summary: Nahua" [Online Document Available Through Ehraf World Cultures Database License], Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

This is a culture summary of the Nahua. Information is presented on major aspects of Nahua culture.

"Anthropology Gets Religion: Cultural Ecology, Pantheism, And Paper Dolls Among The Nahua People Of Mexico.", Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

No abstract provided.

"Pantheism And Sacred Water Mountains: The Cultural Ecology Of Contemporary Aztec Religion.", Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

No abstract provided.

"Blood And Paper: Dard Hunter And Ritual Sacrifice Among Native Americans Of Mexico.", Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

Anita Lynn Forgach Keynote Speaker Award 2004 Lecture.

"Pantheistic Religion And The Cognized Model Of The Environment Among The Nahua Of Northern Veracruz, Mexico.", Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

No abstract provided.

Territorializing Indigeneity And Powwow Markets, Blaire Gagnon

Blaire Gagnon

North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Research has rarely considered the processes by which powwows become places or the role of territorialization in that process. This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow organizing committees employ to construct powwows and their arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign political space from which they can manage relations with multiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of Nativeness are negotiated.

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 …

Engendering S2013tatus And Value In The Powwow Art Market, Blaire Gagnon

Blaire Gagnon

This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts market. Over the past century, the field of Indian art developed a system of valuation that employs the "negative relationship" to create a hierarchy of people, objects, and markets. Central to this system are regimes of value associated with art and commodity. I argue that the presence of the mass-produced makes it possible for artisan-vendors to employ the negative relationship to define, value, and make sustainable the artistic in the powwow market context. Ultimately, this marks artisan-vendors and mass-produced vendors as position-takers with the Indian …

“Co-Creating Heritage Landscapes: A Rancièrian Approach To Urban Historic Centers In Late Socialist Cuba.”, Matthew Hill, Maki Tanaka

Matthew J. Hill

Recent anthropological studies of cultural heritage have moved beyond enduring binary approaches (e.g. heritage vs. history, memory vs. counter-memory, or global vs. local) by highlighting the performativity, inventiveness and multiplicity of heritage processes. Yet one-party states like Cuba present cases where the analysis of multiplicity is not as straightforward as suggested by these studies. This is due to the disciplinary nature of the state-directed and tourism-oriented, heritage-making projects that blind us to other types of heritage practices. In such contexts, applying a topographical inquiry championed by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière to analyses of heritage can recuperate multiplicity by leveling …

Ant 396: Senior Capstone: The Anthropological Life, John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Mph 512: Applied Community Public Health Research Methods, John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Ant 272: Medical Anthropology, John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Kashcul: Towards Preserving Cultural Heritage Through Digitization., Nadim Akhtar Khan

NADIM AKHTAR KHAN