Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society
Trade Review“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
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
