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Author: José María Álvarez Fernández
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Published: 2009-06-08
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9788466785631
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Author: José María Álvarez Fernández
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Published: 2009-06-08
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9788466785631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Néstor García Canclini
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0292789076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy—a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved. Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology—those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture.
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles W. Fisher
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher H. Lutz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780806129112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSantiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment in 1541 until the earthquakes of 1773. Christopher H. Lutz traces the demographic and social history of the city during this period, focusing on the rise of groups of mixed descent. During these two centuries the city evolved from a segmented society of Indians, Spaniards, and African slaves to an increasingly mixed population as the formerly all-Indian barrios became home to a large intermediate group of ladinos. The history of the evolution of a multiethnic society in Santiago also sheds light on the present-day struggle of Guatemalan ladinos and Indians and the problems that continue to divide the country today.
Author: George K. Russell
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780980083118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Beatriz Sarlo
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780816630097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this bracing book. Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing.
Author: Susan Greenfield
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Greenfield explores how the human nature of future generations could be on course for a dramatic alteration, arguing that the current revolution in biomedical science and information technologies will have a huge impact on our brains and central nervous system. She believes that the society in which future generations will live and the way they view themselves will be like nothing our species has yet experienced in the tens of thousands of years to date. makeover far more cataclysmic than anything that has happened before. As we appreciate the dynamism and sensitivity of our brain circuitry, so the prospect of directly tampering with the essence of our individuality becomes a possibility.
Author: Stuart Lester
Publisher: National Children's Bureau
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781905818150
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