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Embodying Mexico [electronic resource] : tourism, nationalism & performance / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

Author:
Hellier-Tinoco, Ruth
Published:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos -- Introduction -- 1.Beyond Your Expectations: Twenty-First-Century Mexico -- 2.Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism -- pt. II Tracing Ninety Years of Performism -- 3.Forging the Nation: The Postrevolutionary Years -- 4.Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City -- 5.Destination Lake Patzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with an Island and Night of the Dead -- 6.Authentic Mexican Dances: In the Palace of Fine Arts and Across the National Border -- 7.Films, Visual Images, and Folklorico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies -- 8.Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs -- 9.Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World -- 10.Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zacan Festival -- pt. III Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics -- 11.In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation -- 12.Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, and the World's Fair -- 13.Celebrating and Consuming Bodies: Economic and Symbolic Production.
Summary:
Exploring the role of performance in tourist and nationalist contexts, Embodying Mexico analyzes the making of icons in 20th century Mexico, as local dance, music, and ritual practices are transformed into national and global spectacles.
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ISBN:
9780199896998 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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