In the colonial world, the holidays guarded a great importance in the daily life of cities and towns. The festivities of Colonial and Independent Mexico provided a tool for the groups in power to legitimize the existing system of domination, strengthen the hierarchical order of society, provide the individuals a formation that shares match with the State Project, thus facilitating the work of domination and confirming, with every celebration, the inalterable perdurability of the society.
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For the Mexico of the Porfiriato, the German Empire was growing importance not only as a source of capital, but also and above all as one of its main markets for export products – particularly coffee – but also raw materials for pharmaceutical industry, sisal and timber. More important than exports was Germany’s role as a provider of technology, mainly machinery.
[Texto completo]Based on data obtained during eleven months of field experience in various placements between 2001 and 2003, spread over several Rarámuri communities of the high and low Tarahumara, the attention will focus here on pascol, Rarámuri dance that, as the case has both human and divine guidance.
[Texto completo]The stove and the cornfield are complementary, not contradictory as cultural value, as they summarize the basic survival of both human and divine: the food. With it, there is order, there is creation, there is regeneration, and therefore are scale reproductions of the worldwide.
[Texto completo]On the 10th anniversary of the Seminary of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Mexican anthropology, appeared a commemorative volume that involves various members of the seminar, whose regular meetings were always enriched by a sense of the inevitable seasoned critic of companionship and exercise friendship.
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