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Informationen zum Autor Doris Sommer, ed. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Wiggle Room / Doris Sommer 1 1. Media 29 Intervening from and through Research Practice: Meditations on the Cuzco Workshop / Jesus Martin Barbero 31 Between Technology and Culture: Communication and Modernity in Latin America / Jesus Martin Barbero 37 DNA of Performance / Diana Taylor 52 A City that Improvises Its Globalization / Nestor Garcia Canclini 82 2. Maneuvers 91 The Cultural Agency of Wounded Bodies Politic: Ethnicity and Gender as Prosthetic Support in Postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 93 Tradition, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble / J. Lorand Matory 121 The Discourses of Diversity: Language, Ethnicity, and Interculturality in Latin America / Juan Carlos Godenzzi 146 Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the War / Arturo Arias 167 Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi...que? / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 178 Olodum’s Transcultural Spaces: Community and Difference in Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Performance / Denise Corte 203 Political Construction and Cultural Instrumentalities of Indigenism in Brazil, with Echoes from Latin America / Alcida Rita Ramos 229 Questioning State Geographies of Inclusion in Argentina: The Cultural Politics of Organizations with Mapuche Leadership and Philosophy / Claudia Briones 248 3. Cautions 279 Cultural Agency and Political Struggle in the Era of the Indio Permitido / Charles R. Hale and Rosamel Millaman 281 The Crossroads of Faith: Heroism and Melancholia in the Colombian “Violentologists” (1980–2000) / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo 305 Afterword: A Fax, Two Moles, a Consul, and a Judge / Mary Louise Pratt 326 Afterword: Spread It Around! / Claudio Lomnitz 334 References 341 Contributors 371 Index 375...
