Cultural agency in the Americas

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Cultural agency in the Americas

Doris Sommer, editor

Duke University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-369) and index

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  • Introduction : Wiggle room / Doris Sommer
  • Intervening from and through research practice : meditations on the Cuzco workshop / Jesús Martín Barbero
  • Between technology and culture : communication and modernity in Latin America / Jesús Martín Barbero
  • DNA of performance / Diana Taylor
  • A city that improvises its globalization / Néstir García Canclini
  • The cultural agency of wounded bodies politic : ethnicity and gender as prosthetic support in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson
  • Tradition, transnationalism, and gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / J. Lorand Matory
  • The discourses of diversity : language, ethnicity, and interculturality in Latin America / Juan Carlos Godenzzi
  • Conspiracy on the sidelines : how the Maya won the war / Arturo Arias
  • Radio Taino and the Cuban quest for identi...qué? / Ariana Hernández-Reguant
  • Olodum's transcultural spaces : community and difference in Afro-Brazilian contemporary performance / Denise Corte
  • Political construction and cultural instrumentalities of indigenism in Brazil, with echoes from Latin America / Alcida Rita Ramos
  • Questioning state geographies of inclusion in Argentina : the cultural politics of organizations with Mapuche leadership and philosophy / Claudia Briones
  • Cultural agency and political struggle in the era of the indio permitido / Charles R. Hale and Rosamel Millamán
  • The crossroads of faith : heroism and melancholia in the Columbian "violentologists" (1980-2000) / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo
  • Afterword : a fax, two moles, a consul, and a judge / Mary Louise Pratt
  • Afterword : spread it around! / Claudio Lomnitz

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