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Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nuevo México Profundo by :
Download or read book Nuevo México Profundo written by . This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs document the contemporary followers of the famed Mexican folk healer who died in 1938 and the pilgrimages that continue in his name.
Author : Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
Release : 2010-06-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis México Profundo by : Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
Download or read book México Profundo written by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's life obligation. Time is circular, and humans fulfill their own cycle in relation to other cycles of the universe. Since the Conquest, Bonfil argues, the peoples of the México profundo have been dominated by an "imaginary México" imposed by the West. It is imaginary not because it does not exist, but because it denies the cultural reality lived daily by most Mexicans. Within the México profundo there exists an enormous body of accumulated knowledge, as well as successful patterns for living together and adapting to the natural world. To face the future successfully, argues Bonfil, Mexico must build on these strengths of Mesoamerican civilization, "one of the few original civilizations that humanity has created throughout all its history."
Author : Virginia Scharff
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Twenty Thousand Roads by : Virginia Scharff
Download or read book Twenty Thousand Roads written by Virginia Scharff. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virginia Scharff's wonderfully readable account of women in motion complicates and enriches our understanding of the nineteenth and twentieth century Wests. Her gendered remapping of the regional landscape explodes traditional notions of western movement. All students of women and gender, travel and place, the West and America, would do well to read this excellent book."--David M. Wrobel, author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West "Virginia Scharff claims for women what has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West--free movement and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American land."--Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado "Brilliant is not a word that is often a part of my critical vocabulary, but brilliantly is how Twenty Thousand Roads begins. When writing of Sacagawea and Susan Magoffin, Virginia Scharff shows vividly how a single life can be a source of sophisticated cultural analysis without becoming an academic artifact or an object of condescension."--Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West
Author : Carlos Avilez
Release : 2015
Genre : Avilez, Carlos
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Book Synopsis México profundo by : Carlos Avilez
Download or read book México profundo written by Carlos Avilez. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis New Mexico's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places by :
Download or read book New Mexico's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places written by . This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to New Mexico's best opportunities for worship, meditation, retreat, or community celebration; with more than 100 listings, including information on ancient petroglyphs and ruins, natural wonders, shrines, historic churches, retreats, and ranches.
