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During fourteen trips between 1993 and 2010 Harvey Stein photographed in Mexico primarily in small towns and villages and mostly during festivals Day of the Dead Easter Independence Day that highlight the countrys unique relationship to death myth ritual and religion This book is the definitive expression of Steins intimate relationship with the people and culture of Mexico The images show fragments of what Mexico is a country of incredible contrasts and contradictions Mexico is about piercing light and deep shadow of stillness and quick explosiveness of massive tradition and creeping progress of great religious belief but with corruption as a way of life It is a land of ritual and legend of vibrant life and dancing skeletons a country next to the United States yet so far away and with over 50 percent of its population under 20 years old but where old age is revered In these masterful photo series Mexico Between Life and Death Stein explores these unsettling disparities
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I made these pictures exactly as if I was taking pictures in WilkesBarre my hometown I was led only by what I could see on the street Of course the extreme newness of this giant country Mexico was shocking to me There really is surrealism in the airMark CohenBetween 1981 and 2003 Mark Cohen travelled to Mexico eight times Seduced by the surrealist qualities he found there Cohen took his camera to the streets of Mexico City Oaxaca City and Mérida as well as other parts of the Yucatán Following his splitsecond impulses Cohen took his signature grab shots often flooding the subjects with the artificial light of the flash His blackandwhite photographs taken at arms length with minimal focus capture the textures and rhythms of gritty city streets and city life Reminiscent of Cohens iconic photographs of workingclass Pennsylvania towns yet imbued with a perceptible sense of foreignness these Mexican images convey the restless energy and strangeness of daily life
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During fourteen trips between 1993 and 2010 Harvey Stein photographed in Mexico primarily in small towns and villages and mostly during festivals Day of the Dead Easter Independence Day that highlight the countrys unique relationship to death myth ritual and religion This book is the definitive expression of Steins intimate relationship with the people and culture of Mexico The images show fragments of what Mexico is a country of incredible contrasts and contradictions Mexico is about piercing light and deep shadow of stillness and quick explosiveness of massive tradition and creeping progress of great religious belief but with corruption as a way of life It is a land of ritual and legend of vibrant life and dancing skeletons a country next to the United States yet so far away and with over 50 percent of its population under 20 years old but where old age is revered In these masterful photo series Mexico Between Life and Death Stein explores these unsettling disparities
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A digital copy of Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 15171521 Hardback by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo Download is immediately available upon purchase
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A digital copy of Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado A Linguistic Atlas Hardback by Garland D Bills Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Hiking New Mexico a Gt sold for 21.18 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
New Mexico is famous for its high mountains Indian ruins sand dunes and stark deserts Hikes in the state offer everything from lush alpine lakes in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to rugged wilderness canyons in Carlsbad Caverns National Park This revised edition of Hiking New Mexico gives you the information you need to plan your customized trip to the Land of Enchantment with more than 90 of the states best hikes milebymile directional cues and detailed directions to the trailheads and information on distance and difficulty for each trail This guide leads you through New Mexicos mountains deserts caves and canyons Climb Wheeler Peak the states highest and enjoys views deep into Colorado go underground in the lava tubes of El Malpais National Monument and hike for days through the lush woodland of the Gila Wilderness in complete solitudeLook inside to findHikes suited to every abilityFullcolor maps and photos throughoutGPS coordinates Directions to the trailheadDifficulty ratings best seasons to hike and much more
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An arched stone gate a millstone path a blueandwhite tiled pool with a quiet fountain brilliant marigolds stone sculptures of playful angels and stately lionsthe Mexican garden is a serene oasis that displays a diversity and ingenuity that is truly astonishingMexicos temperate climate conducive to outdoor living combined with its Indian and Spanish heritage have resulted in a unique style of design and architecture Through more than four hundred magnificent photographs and detailed text Patios and Gardens of Mexico displays the amazing sense of diversity and ingenuity characteristic of the Mexican garden
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The history of Mexicos fearless intimacy with deaththe elevation of death to the center of national identityDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social cultural and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenthcentury holocaust to contemporary MexicanAmerican identity politics anthropologist Claudio Lomnitzs innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexicos rich and unique use of death imagery Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans whose denial of death permeates their cultures the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexicos national identity Death and Idea of Mexico focuses on the dialectical relationship between dying killing and the administration of death and the very formation of the colonial state of a rich and variegated popular culture and of the Mexican nation itself The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that historywithin a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen Based on a stunning range of sourcesfrom missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinationsDeath and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social compact
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Alcohol in Ancient Mexico Format sold for 30.38 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Alcohol in Ancient Mexico reconstructs the variety and extent of distillation traditions in the ancient cultures of Mexico describing in detail the various plants and processes used to make such beverages their prevalence and their significance for local cultureThe art of distillation arrived in Mexico with the Spaniards in the sixteenth century However well before that time native skills and available resources had contributed to a welldeveloped tradition of intoxicating beverages many of which are still produced and consumedIn the 1930s Henry Bruman visited various Mexican and Central American Indian tribes to reconstruct the variety and extent of these ancient traditions He discerned five distinct areas defined by the culturally most significant beverages all superimposed over the great mescal wine region Within these five areas he noted wine made from cactus cactus fruit cornstalks and mesquite pods beer from sprouted maize and fermented sap from pulque agavesOutside the mescal region he observed widespread consumption in the Yucatan of a wine made from fermented honey and balché bark plus lesserknown beverages in other regions He also observed the frequent inclusion in the fermentation process of alkaloidbearing ingredients such as peyote and tobacco plants whose roots or bark contain saponinswhich act as cardiac poisonsand even poisons from certain toadsAlcohol in Ancient Mexico also considers the relative absence of alcoholic drink in the southwestern United States the introduction of sills following the Spanish conquest and possible sources for the introduction of coconut winePreviously unpublished the research presented here retains its relevance today and the photographs offer a fascinating glimpse at a traditional world that has now almost vanished
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Rock Climbing New Mexico Format sold for 27.06 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The superb crags of New Mexico beckon climbers from all over the world Stunning alpine and desert scenery highquality rock no crowds and yearround climbing are but a few features that draw climbers to places like Cochiti Mesa Socorros Enchanted Tower and the Tres Piedras Rocks Rock Climbing New Mexico is the only climbing guide that covers all the major climbing areas in the Land of Enchantment It included hundreds of routes ranging from 56 to 514 appealing to both traditional and sport climbers This guide includes firsthand information for area overviews and climbing histories route betas and topos detailed location maps and photos as well as recommendations for equipment and information for approaches and descents Rock Climbing New Mexico is an essential tool for planning your next climbing trip
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Collecting Mexico Format Paperback sold for 24.85 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Collecting Mexico centers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenthcentury Mexico Shelley E Garrigan approaches questions of origin citizenry membership and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated In doing so she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force Spanning the Porfiriato period from 1867 to 1910 Collecting Mexico illuminates the creation and institutionalization of a Mexican cultural inheritance Employing a wide range of examplesincluding the erection of public monuments the culture of fine arts and the representation of Mexico at the Paris Worlds Fair of 1889Garrigan pursues two strands of thought that weave together in surprising ways national heritage as a transcendental value and patrimony as potential commercial interest Collecting Mexico shows that the patterns of institutional collecting reveal how Mexican public collections engendered social meaning Using extensive archival materials Garrigans close readings of the processes of collection building offer a new vantage point for viewing larger issues of identity social position and culturalcapital exchange
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This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs practical information for visitors and context pertinent to current understanding Frank Graziano provides unprecedented coverage of the churches by combining his extensive fieldwork with research in archives and previous scholarship The book is written in an engaging narrative prose that brings the reader inside of congregations in Indian and Hispanic villages The focus is less on church buildings than on people in relation to churches parishioners caretakers priests restorers and on the authors experiences researching among them
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Salado is an enigma of the past One of the most spectacular cultures of the ancient Southwest its brilliant polychrome pottery has been subjected to varied interpretations from religious cult to artistic horizon Stephen Lekson now uses data from two Salado sitesa large pueblo and a small farmsteadto clarify longstanding misconceptions about this culture By combining analysis of the large wholevessel collection at Dutch Ruin with the scientific excavation of Villareal II a picture of Salado emerges that enables Lekson to evaluate previous competing theories and propose that Salado represents a major fourteenthcentury migration of Pueblo peoples into the Chihuahuan deserts Lekson demonstrates that late shortlived Salado farmsteadsdifficult to identify archaeologically in areas with larger Mimbres concentrationscoexisted with larger Salado towns and he argues that Salado in the Upper Gila region appears as a substantial inmigration of Mogollon Uplands populations into what was a vacant river valley Throughout the fourteenth century Salado communities in the Upper Gila were integrated into the larger Salado horizon and were closely connected to Casas Grandes as indicated by the export of serpentine to the city of Paquimé and the occurrence of Casas Grandes pottery at Upper Gila Salado sites The book includes illustrations of 71 vessels from Dutch Ruin plus a fullcolor frontispiece Through analysis of these two sites Lekson has taken a large step toward clearing up the mystery of Salado His work will be welcomed by all who study the movements of peoples in the prehispanic Southwest
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A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twentyfirst centuries Mexicos Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases falling within successive historical epochs that illustrate how the practice of drawing up and preserving historical documentsin particular maps oral accounts and painted manuscriptshas been a determining factor in the history of Mexicos Indian communities for a variety of purposes including the significant issue of land and its rightful ownership Since the sixteenth century numerous Indian pueblos have presented colonial and national courts with historical evidence that defends their landholdings Because of its sweeping scope groundbreaking research and the authors intimate knowledge of specific communities Mexicos Indigenous Communities is a unique and exceptional contribution to Mexican history It will appeal to students and specialists of history indigenous studies ethnohistory and anthropology of Latin America and Mexico
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Mexico The Essentials Format Paperback sold at 42.15 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Mexico The Essentials provides a concise introduction to Mexican history and culture built on ten fundamental aspects of Mexican life Featuring a topical organization the book offers readers easy access to these major themesthe essentialsthat shape the nation and society physical and living diversity politics family economy religion Mexico City popular arts drugs and crimes migration and Mexico in global perspective Authors William H Beezley and Colin M MacLachlan weave together each narrative with material from cultural investigations ethnic and gender studies and new sourcesincluding visual and material evidenceto enrich and deepen students understanding and appreciation of the Mexican past Each of the essays is written from a historical perspective and begins with a brief section describing the colonial legacy
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Mexico City is one of Latin Americas cultural capitals and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of Cronicas short hybrid texts that are part literary essay part urban reportagea
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This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution exploring what this pivotal event meant to women The contributors offer a fresh look at womens participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing goals were actively involved first in military roles during the violent early phase of civil war and later in the statebuilding process Drawing on a variety of perspectives the volume illuminates the ways women variously accepted contested used and manipulated the revolutionary project in Mexico All too often attention has been limited to elite prorevolutionary womens formal political activities particularly their pursuit of suffrage This timely volume broadens traditional perspectives drawing on new scholarship that considers grassroots participation in institution building and the contested nature of the revolutionary process Recovering narratives that have been virtually written out of the historical record this book brings us a rich and complex array of womens experiences in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary era in Mexico
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Spectacular Mexico Format Paperback sold for 32.55 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
In the wake of its early twentiethcentury civil wars Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexicos arrival in the developed world In Spectacular Mexico Luis M Castañeda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and ultimately to guide the nations capital into becoming the powerful megacity we know today Not only the first Latin American country to host the Olympics but also the first Spanishspeaking country Mexicos architectural transformation was put on international display From traveling exhibitions of indigenous archaeological artifacts to the construction of the Mexico City subway Spectacular Mexico details how these key projects placed the nation on the stage of global capitalism and revamped its status as a modernized country Surveying works of major architects such as Félix Candela Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Ricardo Legorreta and graphic designer Lance Wyman Castañeda illustrates the use of architecture and design as instruments of propaganda and nation branding Forming a kind of image economy Mexicos architectural projects and artifacts were at the heart of the nations economic growth and cultivated a new mass audience at an international level Through an examination of one of the most important cosmopolitan moments in Mexicos history Spectacular Mexico positions architecture as central to the negotiation of social economic and political relations
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