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Cultural agency in the Americas / Doris Sommer, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Latin America.
- Arts and society.
- Art and state--Latin America.
- Art and state.
- Social change--Latin America.
- Social change.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Globalization.
- Latin America--Cultural policy.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Wiggle room / Doris Sommer
- Intervening from and through research practice : meditations on the Cuzco workshop / Jesus Martin Barbero
- Between technology and culture : communication and modernity in Latin America / Jesus Martin Barbero
- DNA of performance / Diana Taylor
- A city that improvises its globalization / Nestir Garcia 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 Candomble / 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...que? / Ariana Hernandez-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 Millaman
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8748-4
- OCLC:
- 609245014
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