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"Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of people's responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of today's global emergency"--

This article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid struggle, South African expressive culture was channeled through local paradigms of reception in the world beyond, in taut negotiation with aesthetic, institutional, linguistic, and political considerations. Instances of cultural translation, catachresis, and slippage resulting from the deterritorialization of South African cultural formations can thus be contextualized, historicized, and turned back reflexively on other conjunctures, to defamiliarize existing scholarship. Makeba's long exile in Ahmed Sékou Touré's Guinea between 1969 and 1986 is examined in the light of these claims. Here, Makeba crosses a theater of intense ideological contestation following Touré's 1968 socialist cultural revolution, illuminating some of its constitutive features. The article concludes with a consideration of Makeba's agency as performer at the interface between militant cultural nationalism and state prohibition in revolutionary Guinea.

"In Radical Health, Julie Avril Minich explores Latinx expressive culture to see how Latinx cultural workers connect compulsory health to structural racism, and how their work reimagines health along collective and political lines. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of physical and mental health, Minich shows how artists, writers, and others make visible the social context of individual healthcare decisions, especially factors beyond individual control such as access to nutritious food, medical care and information, clean air and water, and cultural representations portraying one's life as valuable and worth living. From the poetry of Rafael Campo to the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the novels and short stories of Junot Diaz, the online visual and writerly activism of Virgie Tovar, and beyond, Minich shows how cultural works depict people who are labeled as unhealthy and reject the stigma of unhealth. In so doing, she argues, Latinx cultural workers push against respectability politics and "health normativity" to provide an interrogation of health as an ideological construct"--

Social studies is the combined study of several disciplines including cultural anthropology where expressive culture is defined and described. Expressive culture is the processes, emotions, and ideas bound within the social production of aesthetic forms and performances in everyday life. It is a way to embody culture and to express culture through sensory experiences such as dance, music, literature, visual media, and theater. By integrating the arts into social studies, students are introduced to cultural ideals, traditions, and norms inherent in their own lives. This article describes the use of cultural anthropology as a vehicle to teach social studies concepts with visual and performing arts. Two examples of coequal social studies and arts units are examined in second and sixth grades.

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. Looking Mighty Sprucy --2. Done Up in the Tastiest Manner --3. I' d Rather Dance Den Eat --4. Dandies and Dandizettes --5. Swingin' like Crazy --6. Strolling, Jooking, and Fixy Clothes --7. The Long-Veiled Beauty of Our Own World --8. The Stroll --Epilogue: Suit Men from Suit Land --Notes --Index

Intro -- Redefining the African Diaspora -- Copyright -- Introduction -- 1. The African Diaspora as a Catalyst for African Freedom -- 2. The Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Colonialism -- 3. Reconstructing Jamaican Nationalism -- 4. Axé Politics -- 5. "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race" -- 6. The Struggle for Blackness -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Con il termine di aristocrazia messicana si intende quel gruppo sociale composto da coloro che discendono da antenati facenti parte delle classe dirigente degli encomenderos dei secoli XVI e XVII, dei plutocrati proprietari di haciendas e di miniere e gestori del grande commercio dagli inizi del XVIII secolo al termine del periodo coloniale, e infine di quelle famiglie che dominarono la politica e l'economia del paese dall'indipendenza alla fine del porfirato. All'interno dell'aristocrazia la gerarchia si articola tenendo presente i due fattori dell'antichita del lignaggio e della ricchezza, quest'ultimo risultando prevalente sul primo. Nel lavoro qui presentato vengono presi in esame i simboli e gli elementi di coesione della classe, ma anche le differenze esistenti tra i vari settori che la compongono e le relazioni tra di esse intercorrenti.