Embodying Mexico Tourism, Nationalism & Performance

Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Pátzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the present day, Hellier-Tinoco's analysis is thoroughly grounded in Mexican politics and history, and simultaneously incorporates choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis. Exploring multiple contexts in Mexico, the USA, and Europe, Embodying Mexico expands and enriches our understanding of complex processes of creating national icons, performance repertoires, and tourist attractions, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience. An extensive companion website illustrates the author's arguments through audio and video.

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco is a professor in the Departments of Music and Theater/Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research engages the fields of performance studies, ethnomusicology, dance anthropology, theater studies, Latin American history, and community arts.

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Part One: Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos
Introduction
1. Beyond Your Expectations: Twentyfirst Century Mexico
2. Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism
Part Two: Tracing Ninety Years of Performism
3. Forging the Nation: the Postrevolutionary Years
4. Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City
5. Destination Lake Pátzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with Night of the Dead
6. Authentic Mexican Dances: The Palace of Fine Arts and Across the Border
7. Films, Visual Images, and Folklórico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies
8. Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs
9. Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World
10. Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zacán Festival
Part Three: Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics
11. In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation
12. Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, and the World's Fair
13. Celebrating and Consuming Bodies: Economic and Symbolic Production
Appendix One: The Dance of the Old Men: Choreology and Music
Appendix Two: Interviews, Personal Communication, and Institutional Support
Appendix Three: Governmental Institutions and Departments
Notes
References