Embodying Mexicoexamines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake P?tzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the present day, Hellier-Tinoco's analysis is thoroughly grounded in Mexican politics and history, and simultaneously incorporates choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis.
Exploring multiple contexts in Mexico, the USA, and Europe,Embodying Mexicoexpands and enriches our understanding of complex processes of creating national icons, performance repertoires, and tourist attractions, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience. An extensive companion website illustrates the author's arguments through audio and video.
About the Companion Website www.oup.com/us/embodyingmexico Part One: Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos Introduction 1. Beyond Your Expectations: Twentyfirst Century Mexico 2. Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism Part Two: Tracing Ninety Years of Performism 3. Forging the Nation: the Postrevolutionary Years 4. Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City 5. Destination Lake P?tzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with Night of the Dead 6. Authentic Mexican Dances: The Palace of Fine Arts and Across the Border 7. Films, Visual Images, and Folkl?rico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies 8. Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs 9. Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World 10. Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zac?n Festival Part Three: Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics 11. In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation 12. Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, lc*
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