Cultural Agency in the Americas

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Cultural Agency in the Americas

Edited by: Doris Sommer
With contributions by: Jesus Martin Barbero , Diana Taylor and Néstor Garcia Canclini

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387480

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About this book

An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society.

Author / Editor information

Doris Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. Her books include Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“In titling itself as it does, Cultural Agency in the Americas makes a foundational gesture. The thing to be founded is a scholarly praxis, a blueprint for academic work committed to advancing energetic, creative, nonharmonious but nonviolent democratic relations.”—Mary Louise Pratt, from her afterword

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: Wiggle Room Doris Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Media
Intervening from and through Research Practice: Meditations on the Cuzco Workshop Jesús Martín Barbero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Between Technology and Culture: Communication and Modernity in Latin America Jesús Martín Barbero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
DNA of Performance Diana Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
A City that Improvises Its Globalization néstor garcía canclini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
2. Maneuvers
The Cultural Agency of Wounded Bodies Politic: Ethnicity and Gender as Prosthetic Support in Postwar Guatemala Diane M. Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Tradition, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé J. Lorand Matory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The Discourses of Diversity: Language, Ethnicity, and Interculturality in Latin America Juan Carlos Godenzzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the War Arturo Arias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi . . . qué? Ariana Hernández-Reguant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Olodum’s Transcultural Spaces: Community and Difference in Afro- Brazilian Contemporary Performance Denise Corte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Political Construction and Cultural Instrumentalities of Indigenism in Brazil, with Echoes from Latin America Alcida Rita Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Questioning State Geographies of Inclusion in Argentina: The Cultural Politics of Organizations with Mapuche Leadership and Philosophy Claudia Briones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
3. Cautions
Cultural Agency and Political Struggle in the Era of the Indio Permitido Charles R. Hale and Rosamel Millamán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
The Crossroads of Faith: Heroism and Melancholia in the Colombian ‘‘Violentologists’’ (1980–2000) Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Afterword: A Fax, Two Moles, a Consul, and a Judge Mary Louise Pratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
Afterword: Spread It Around! Claudio Lomnitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Other: 19 b&w photos, 1 table

eBook

Published: January 19, 2006
ISBN: 9780822387480