Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism & Performance by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

By Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

Embodying Mexico examines performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the previous males and evening of the lifeless of Lake Pátzcuaro--in a variety of manifestations, together with movie, theater, vacationer publications, ads, and souvenirs. protecting a ninety-year interval from the postrevolutionary period to the current day, Hellier-Tinoco's research is punctiliously grounded in Mexican politics and heritage, and at the same time comprises choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis.

Exploring a number of contexts in Mexico, the us, and Europe, Embodying Mexico expands and enriches our figuring out of complicated tactics of constructing nationwide icons, functionality repertoires, and vacationer points of interest, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory event. an intensive better half web site illustrates the author's arguments via audio and video.

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