Mayordomo

Author : Stanley Crawford
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826314451
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayordomo written by Stanley Crawford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.

Author : John M. Ingham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292751109
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary, Michael, and Lucifer written by John M. Ingham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less immediately obvious. It is often couched in enigmatic idiom and imagery, and it is further obscured by the vestiges of pagan customs and the anticlerical attitudes of many villagers. These heterodox tendencies have even led some observers to conclude that Catholicism in rural Mexico is little more than a thin veneer on indigenous practice. In Mary, Michael, and Lucifer John M. Ingham attempts to develop a modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture, an interpretation that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy. Drawing on field research in Tlayacapan, Morelos, a village in the central highlands, he shows that nearly every domain of folk culture is informed with religious meaning. More precisely, the Catholic categories of spirit, nature, and evil compose the basic framework of the villagers' social relations and subjective experiences.

Author : Phil Lovato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Las Acequias Del Norte written by Phil Lovato and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guillermo de la Peña
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007668
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Legacy of Promises written by Guillermo de la Peña and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonio Buero Vallejo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0856685534
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dreamer for the People written by Antonio Buero Vallejo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stanford University Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Magazine
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599386
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Is Like a Wheel written by Roger Magazine and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day anthropological manifesto, Roger Magazine proposes a radical but commonsense change to the study of people whose understanding of the world differs substantially from our own. Specifically, it argues for a major shift in the prevailing approach to the study of rural highland peoples in Mexico. Using ethnographic material, Roger Magazine builds a convincing case that many of the discipline’s usual topics and approaches distract anthropologists from what is truly important to the people whose lives they study. While Western anthropologists have usually focused on the production of things, such as community, social structure, cultural practices, identities, and material goods—since this is what they see as the appropriate objective of productive action in their own lives—residents of rural highland communities in Mexico (among others) are primarily concerned with what Magazine calls the production of active subjectivity in other persons. According to Magazine, where Western anthropologists often assume that persons are individuals capable of acting on their own to produce things, rural highland Mexicans see persons as inherently interdependent and in need of others even to act. He utilizes the term “active subjectivity” to denote the fact that what they produce in others is not simply action but also a subjective state or attitude of willingness to perform the action. The author’s goals are to improve understandings of rural highland Mexicans’ lives and to contribute to a broader disciplinary effort aimed at revealing the cultural specificity or ethnocentricity of our supposedly universally applicable concepts and theories.

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kazuyasu Ochiai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book アジア・アフリカにおける象徴と世界観の比較研究 written by Kazuyasu Ochiai and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Charney
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761820703
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824 written by Paul Charney and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charney (whose credentials and affiliation are not stated) examines several aspects of the social history of Lima's Indians. Coverage includes the sustained indigenous presence throughout the colonial period; issues of Indian land tenure; the rise of the Indian leadership class made up of both commoners and nobility; the Indian cofradia as a crucial, ethnic-supporting mechanism; the survival of the Indian family, and its adaptation of certain Spanish practices (godparenthood, will-making, dowries). The author argues that despite their incorporation of aspects of Spanish culture, the Indians retained a clear sense of their distinct identity as a people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.