Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century

A Multimedia-enabled Text

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Jay Sokolovsky

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This innovative, interactive ethnography employs a range of media to explore the lives of the residents of a village set in the rugged mountains overlooking Mexico City, focusing on how these villagers react and adapt to a rapidly globalized world. Students can view the evolving life of San Jerónimo Amanalco and its region over the past four decades through print, web-embedded, and e-reader enabled resources. This book-offers a multimedia approach, including archival images and documents, original photographs, audio recordings, and extensive video;-incorporates ethnographic information gathered during the author’s four decades of research in the region;-includes community members’ responses to the author’s research through social media, email, and video-taped comments.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-04-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagLeft Coast Press Inc
ISBN9781629581743

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Jay Sokolovsky is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Society, Culture and Language at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA. He is a cultural anthropologist with specialties in the globalization of indigenous Mexico, the anthropology of aging, urban anthropology, and video documentation. He is the 2013 recipient of the Textor Award for Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropological Association, and the author numerous articles and five books, including the award-winning volume, The Cultural Context of Aging (third edition, 2009). SokolovskyAEs research has been done in a Mexican indigenous community, New York's inner-city, and urban neighborhoods in England and Croatia. His latest ethnographic video, Urban Garden: Fighting for Life and Beauty , documents the community garden movement in New York City.

1. Never say “Chou-chou ley” to an Aztec!2. Orientation to This Book3. History, Culture, and Context4. "Hey, Mister, Are You an Anthropologist?" And Other Mysteries of Fieldwork, Culture, and History5. “Never More Campesinos”: Life Course in Twenty- First-Century Perspective6. Who Are You Calling Indio?: Ethnoscapes and the False Faces of Tradition and Modernity7. Why Rosalba Fainted at Her Wedding and Other Tales of Family, Work, and Globalization8. Ritual Drama, Religion, and the Spaces in Between9. Magical Cosmology: Myth, Witches, Vampires, and Water Dwarfs10. Conclusions: The Varied Meanings of “Never More Campesinos"

"This innovative, interactive, and highly engaging ethnography weaves together compelling personal narratives within the context of a Mexican community's adaption to political, economic, and cultural transformations. Drawing on more than 40 years of fieldwork, Sokolovsky immerses the reader in family and village relationships including intergenerational and gender rituals and conflicts. Cultural anthropology at its best." --Serena Nanda, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUN "This is the ethnography of the future, a true multimedia book, embedded with links to PowerPoints, audio clips, videos, and Google maps. Indigenous Mexico documents the evolution of central Mexican community from a traditional agrarian peasant village to a robust town engaged with the larger forces of globalization. The author has set a new standard for interactive ethnography." --Tony Andrews, New College of Florida