Search results for "Colonial"
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DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO DE UN PUEBLO LACUSTRE: CAPULHUAC, ESTADO DE MÉXICO
2017
Resumen Capulhuac se localiza en la Cuenca del Alto Lerma en el Estado de Mexico, en sus origenes prehispanicos mantuvo un desarrollo sociocultural y economico lacustre. Durante la epoca colonial la poblacion se dedico a la produccion y venta de pulque, a la cria de ganado menor, al comercio de estos productos y de los obtenidos de la cienaga. En la decada de 1940 comenzo la construccion del acueducto que dirige las aguas del Alto Lerma hacia el Distrito Federal, lo que disminuyo la cantidad de recursos lacustres para el sustento y el comercio, esto incremento la explotacion del maguey y la cria de ganado, para la elaboracion de pulque y la manufactura de prendas de lana, respectivamente. L…
Translationsstrategien in Texten der Evangelisierung und der indigenen Rechtsprechung in Neu-Spanien
2021
ZusammenfassungThis paper sets out to reconstruct concepts of translation between Spanish and indigenous languages that were prevalent in religious as well as notarial contexts in colonial Mexico (more specifically in a district within the state of Oaxaca) between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. To this end, we analyse Christian doctrinal texts translated from Spanish into the Zapotec language by Dominican friars in order to propagate the Christian faith, as well as notarial texts in the form of testaments written in Zapotec by the indigenous population and translated into Spanish in order to be submitted as evidence in court. We pay particular attention to the use and translation o…
The Diversity of the Philippine Population
2017
A country of many islands, the Philippines is also a country of many languages. The Tagalog language of Manila has been chosen as the base of the national Pilipino language, even if Cebuano counts as many speakers. The languages of the Philippines have common grammatical structures, but wide differences in vocabulary. Contrary to Latin America where Spanish and Portuguese became the dominant languages, Spanish did not dominate the local languages, since colonial priests preferred to learn local languages rather than teaching Spanish to their flocks. English, as the second colonial language, is spoken much more, since the Americans educated Filipinos in English as part of their “benevolent a…
The global politics of celebrity humanitarianism
2014
Salomanía: la construcción imaginaria de la danza oriental
2008
En este artículo se analiza la asociación establecida en el imaginario occidental entre danza oriental y la danza de Salomé, enmarcada en el Orientalismo producido por la expansión colonial europea. Para ello se han estudiado los fragmentos que se refieren a esta danza en las obras de Gustave Flaubert, “Herodias”, y Oscar Wilde, Salomé. Tras el estreno de esta última se desencadenó la Salomanía, moda que a comienzos del siglo XX popularizó las representaciones de la danza de Salomé tanto en teatro como en cine por su reclamo exótico y erótico. Posteriormente, en algunas capitales de Medio Oriente, aún bajo el dominio colonial, se desarrolló la disciplina que hoy se conoce como danza orienta…
Violencias geográficas. La imagen de mujer en las relaciones oriente-occidente
2007
A partir del análisis de diferentes actividades culturales producidas desde lugares “no occidentales”, trataremos de desvelar el funcionamiento de un tipo concreto de violencia de género, una violencia que hemos denominado “geográfica”. Estas actividades artístico-activistas no sólo funcionan como ejercicios críticos de “contrarrepresentación” sino que, además, empleando diferentes “tácticas”, modos de hacer críticos, invisibles en los grandes circuitos de producción difusión del Saber, aparecen en la actualidad como una de las herramientas principales en la configuración de un nuevo proyecto feminista global. Este proyecto común, tendrá como principal objetivo la denuncia y desenmascaramie…
Yinka Shonibare MBE and sartorial comedy: costuming as subversive practice
2016
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Decay, Disease and Death in Doris Lessing's "The Grass Is Singing": A Feminist Perspective
2018
The article analyses Lessing’s first and highly acclaimed novel of 1950, whose action is set in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s (the country remained British self-governing colony until 1980). Its interpretation from the feminist and gender perspectives, which also involves issues of race and class, is closely related to the themesof decay, disease and death. The process of identity formation of the heroine appears to be the case of social constructionism, for it is completed on her spouse’s farm where Mary comes to live with the man who proves to be inadequate as a husband and farmer, and ultimately as a representative of the white race. The major causes of the gradual collapse and tragic e…
Haunted Cartographies: toward a postcolonial gyne-a-logy of mapmaking
2016
Recalling Jardine’s definition of ‘gynesis’ (1985) which, etymologically, means ‘woman-process’ as the ‘putting into discourse of “woman”’ and strategically combining it with the Foucauldian sense of genealogy (1979), the aim of this paper is to re-vision and re-envision through the lens of feminist and postcolonial critical theory and visual arts the problematics inherent to what has been named the ‘cartographic reason’ (Farinelli, 2009). As Adrienne Rich once proposed for her writing, by revision I mean the theoretical act ‘of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction’ (1972: 18). The new critical direction I detrimentally encourage is …
Finns in the Colonial World
2021
AbstractUtilizing such concepts as “colonial complicity” and “colonialism without colonies”, this chapter examines the case of Finns and Finland as a nation that was once oppressed but also itself complicit in colonialism. It argues that although the Finnish nation has historically been positioned in Europe between western and eastern empires, Finns were not only passive victims of (Russian) imperial rule but also active participants in the creation of imperial vocabulary in various colonial contexts, including Sápmi in the North.This chapter argues that although Finns never had overseas colonies, they were involved in the colonial world, sending out colonizers and producing images of colon…