Embodying Mexico : tourism, nationalism & performance

Bok av Ruth. Hellier-Tinoco
Exploring the role of performance in tourist and nationalist contexts,Embodying Mexico analyzes the making of icons in twentieth-century Mexico, as local dance, music, and ritual practices are transformed into national and global spectacles. Drawing on extensive ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience this interdisciplinary study makes an important contribution to an understanding of Mexican cultural politics.