Creating Culture, Performing Community (eBook)

An Angahuan Wedding Story

Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07344-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, México, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhépecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account of ritual practices, author Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera focuses on the tembuchakua, or wedding rituals, analyzing their creation, performance, and transformation within the P'urhépecha community. By proposing alternative approaches to understanding indigeneity, Martínez-Rivera showcases how people carefully transform their cultural practices and rearticulate and perform their identities.

Thus Creating Culture, Performing Community has three main aims: to analyze how people create their own culture; to showcase how cultural practices are performed to reflect particular ideas of what it means to be a member of a community; and to move beyond limited understandings of indigenous identity and cultural practices.

Autor

Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera is Assistant Professor of English (Folklore) and Latinx Studies at the Ohio State University. She is editor (with Solimar Otero) of Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (IUP, 2021).

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
A Note on Language, Style, and Images
Introduction: Getting Married in Angahuan
1. Under the Volcano's Shadow: Angahuan and the P'urhépecha Area
2. Carrying the Uarhota: Courtship Rituals and Youth Cultures in Angahuan
3. Te Toca: Eloping vs. Asking for Marriage
4. Creating Culture: Organizing a Tembuchakua
Interlude: Joel and Daniela's P'urhépecha Wedding (October 2009)
5. Performing Community: Following the Confetti Trail
6. Transforming the Tembuchakua
Conclusion: Getting Married in Angahuan, revisited
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Underground Cultures
• Zusatzinfo: 53 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: anti-colonial • anticolonial • Autoethnography • courtship rituals • Customs • decolonial theory • Festivals • Indigenous • Latinx • Performance • Traditions • vernacular cultural practices • Youth Culture
• ISBN-10: 0-253-07344-8 / 0253073448
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-07344-0 / 9780253073440