Carrying the Word
The Concheros Dance in Mexico City
Published on 15. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-60732-138-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican culture, which is rife with ritual dances.The Concheros blend Catholic and indigenous traditions in their performances, but are not governed by a predetermined set of beliefs; rather they are bound together by long standing interpersonal connections framed by the discipline of their tradition. The Concheros manifest their spirituality by means of the dance. Rostas traces how they construct their identity and beliefs, both individual and communal, by its means. The book offers new insights into the experience of dancing as a Conchero while also exploring their history, organization and practices.
Carrying the Word provides a new way for audiences to understand the Conchero's dance tradition, and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Mesoamerica. Those studying identity, religion, and tradition will find this social-anthropological work particularly enlightening.
Carrying the Word provides a new way for audiences to understand the Conchero's dance tradition, and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Mesoamerica. Those studying identity, religion, and tradition will find this social-anthropological work particularly enlightening.
Reviews / Votes
"Rostas makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on urban performance genres in Latin America. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended."-K.S. Fine-Dare, CHOICE "Her ethnographic descriptions are the strength of this study... this work makes an important contribution to the field."
-Sandra Garner, American Anthropologist "An engaging, thoughtful and forthright ethnography of a particular dance form, style and history."
-Jonathan Skinner, Bulletin of Latin American Research
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60732-138-5 (9781607321385)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Susanna Rostas is a senior research associate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her research, carried out predominantly in Mexico, has focused on performance, invented ethnicity, identity, religion and religious conversion. She has published widely on the Concheros and is co-author with Andre Droogers of The Popular Use of Popular Religion in Latin America (CEDLA 1993).
Content
Preface; Weighted Boundedness for Multilinear Singular Integral Operator with Variable Calderon-Zygmund Kernel; L'integration Par Rapport a Une Multimesure, Monotone et S-Compacte, a Valeurs Convexes Fermees; Pseudo-Differential Operators & Commutators in Multiplier Spaces; RBSDEs With Stochastic Monotone & Polynomial Growth Condition; Solution of the Master Equation in the Generic Fock Case & Non Fock case & the Existence of Invariant State in $M_2; Weak Approximation in Besov Spaces of Gaussian Sheets From Poisson Processes; A Note on Some Classes of Good Group Codes; Maximal Function in Quantum Calculus; String Homology of a Product of Spheres & the Witt Algebra; Approximation of G-Frames in Hilbert Spaces; On Identities in Law for Some Functionals of Levy Processes; On the Rate of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem for Martingale Difference Sequences of the Kiefer-Wolfowitz Algorithm; Application of Large Deviation Principle & Homogenization to a Semilinear PDE; Distribution & Convolution Product in Quantum Calculus; Delayed Stochastic Evolution Equations of Jump Type: Existence & Uniqueness of Solutions; Continuity & Differentiability Properties of Parameter-Dependent Solutions of the at"-Equation; Index.