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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813498303321

Autore

Gamio Manuel <1883-1960.>

Titolo

Forjando patria [[electronic resource] ] : pro-nacionalismo / / by Manuel Gamio; translated and with an introduction by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO, : University Press of Colorado, 2010

ISBN

1-4571-1069-5

1-60732-041-X

Edizione

[3a ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

"Sepan cuantos--" ; ; núm. 368

Altri autori (Persone)

Armstrong-FumeroFernando

Disciplina

972.08/1

Soggetti

Nationalism - Mexico

Mexico Civilization

Mexico Politics and government 1910-1946

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Translator's Introduction; 1: Forjando Patria; 2: Patrias and Nationalities of Latin America; 3: The Department of Anthropology; 4: The Redemption of the Indigenous Class; 5: Prejudices against the Indigenous Race and Its History; 6: Sociology and Government; 7: Knowledge of the Population; 8: Some Considerations on Statistics; 9: The Work of Art in Mexico; 10: The Concept of Pre-Hispanic Art; 11: Art and Science in the Period of Independence; 12: Department of Fine Arts; 13: There Is No Prehistory!; 14: Synthetic Concept of Archaeology

15: The Values of History16: Revision of the Latin American Constitutions; 17: Our Laws and Our Legislators; 18: Politics and Its Values; 19: Our Religious Transition; 20: Our Catholics; 21: Our Intellectual Culture; 22: The Concept of Culture; 23: Language and Our Country; 24: National Literature; 25: Our Women; 26: The National Seal; 27: Capacity for Work; 28: Our National Industry; 29: Of Yankee and Mexican Metalism; 30: Spain and the Spanish; 31: Integral Education; 32: The Editorial Department; 33: Revolution; 34: Three Nationalist Problems; Summary; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico,



Manuel Gamio originally published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national anthropology of Mexico summarizes the key issues in the development of anthropology as an academic discipline and the establishment of an active field of cultural politics in Mexico. Written during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution, the book has now been translated into English for the first time.  Armstrong-Fumero's translation allows readers to develop a more nuanced understanding of this foundational work, which is oft