Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-369) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Wiggle room / Doris Sommer -- Intervening from and through research practice : meditations on the Cuzco workshop / Jesús Martín Barbero -- Between technology and culture : communication and modernity in Latin America / Jesús Martín Barbero -- DNA of performance / Diana Taylor -- A city that improvises its globalization / Néstor García Canclini -- The cultural agency of wounded bodies politic : ethnicity and gender as prosthetic support in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson -- Tradition, transnationalism, and gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / J. Lorand Matory -- The discourses of diversity : language, ethnicity, and interculturality in Latin America / Juan Carlos Godenzzi -- Conspiracy on the sidelines : how the Maya won the war / Arturo Arias -- Radio Taino and the Cuban quest for identi...qué? / Ariana Hernández-Reguant -- Olodum's transcultural spaces : community and difference in Afro-Brazilian contemporary performance / Denise Corte -- Political construction and cultural instrumentalities of indigenism in Brazil, with echoes from Latin America / Alcida Rita Ramos -- Questioning state geographies of inclusion in Argentina : the cultural politics of organizations with Mapuche leadership and philosophy / Claudia Briones -- Cultural agency and political struggle in the era of the indio permitido / Charles R. Hale and Rosamel Millamán -- The crossroads of faith : heroism and melancholia in the Columbian "violentologists" (1980-2000) / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo -- Afterword : A fax, two moles, a consul, and a judge / Mary Louise Pratt -- Afterword : Spread it around! / Claudio Lomnitz.
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