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Transforming Modernity - Popular Culture in Mexico (Paperback) Loot Price: R504
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Transforming Modernity - Popular Culture in Mexico (Paperback): Nestor Garcia Canclini

Transforming Modernity - Popular Culture in Mexico (Paperback)

Nestor Garcia Canclini; Translated by Lidia Lozano

Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series

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Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Nestor Garcia Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purepecha of Michoacan, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy--a cultural critique of modernism. Garcia Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved.

Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology--those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture.

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Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
Release date: June 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: Nestor Garcia Canclini
Translators: Lidia Lozano
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72759-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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LSN: 0-292-72759-3
Barcode: 9780292727595

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