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This article addresses a recent instance of transformed communicative behavior within the Mexican heavily ritualized & tightly controlled parliamentary scene. The Zapatismo, a relatively new political actor -- of indigenous, armed, rebellious status -- was asked, in Mar 2001, to the Legislative Power stage, to expound their visions & aims about a project of law on indigenous rights. The strategic impact of their public intervention was considerable, given that the visitors' discursive (scenic) strategy on the occasion was remarkably proficient. They provided a renewed instance of creative political communication in official scenarios, still managing not to lose the ethnic bases (senses, demands) of the 1994 uprising. Comandanta Esther acted as spokesperson, & her performance is the focus of the present analysis. A multidisciplinary approach is advocated & case shown. A close reading is applied to the evidence (of mixed character), drawing from discursive, semiotic, visual & anthropological sources. It is an attempt to blend, for best descriptive & interpretive results, various angles of qualitative approaches for the (improved) understanding of a documented instance of political performance. Some ideas concerning the political value of ritualized, symbolic processes, such as the ones mobilized by the Zapatistas, are also briefly explored. 3 Photos, 60 References. Adapted from the source document.

Investigates the discursive construction of indigenous populations in Mexico in 4 government texts: a 1921 speech by a majority party spokeperson; a 1935 legislative initiative concerning the creation of a Dept of Indigenous Affairs; a 1948 presidential initiative creating the present National Indigenous Instit; & a 1990 legislative initiative by President Carlos Salinas. These texts construct indigeneous peoples in a discriminatory fashion. Binaries such as culture & economics, past, & present, & celebration & deficiency are deployed to separate indigeneous peoples from the majority & justify their continued mistreatment. While often portrayed as a bedrock of the National identity of Mexico, indigenous peoples are also described as a scandal requiring constant elite surveillance. 22 References. D. M. Smith

The declaration of love (ie, "I love you") comprises amorous speech in its canonical form, & is symmetrically opposed to discourse on leave-taking or farewell. As a text, "I love you" includes much more than the actual words. The declaration of love, in its first utterance, is irreducible to any other gesture of love that follows because it is the mother of all those other gestures, an opening. It confers "we-ness" on the "I" & "you," & is understood to be unbounded by time & space. These concepts are illustrated by reference to Roland Barthes's Fragmentos de un discurso amoroso ([Fragments of an Amorous Discourse] 1982). 1 Reference. M. Pflum