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Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century

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Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century presents an innovative, interactive ethnography of San Jerónimo Amanalco, a village in the mountains near Mexico City. Through a multimedia approach combining archival images, original photographs, audio, and video, the book examines how local residents adapt to rapid global changes. Drawing on over forty years of research, it offers an evolving portrait of community life enhanced by responses from villagers via social media and video comments.
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This multimedia ethnography is ideal for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and those interested in indigenous cultures navigating modernity.

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This innovative multimedia, interactive ethnography, researched over a period of four decades, explores the changing life of a community in central Mexico as it comes more and more directly into contact with an increasingly global world.

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This innovative, interactive ethnography employs a range of media to explore the lives of the residents of a village set in the rugged mountains overlooking Mexico City, focusing on how these villagers react and adapt to a rapidly globalised world. Students can view the evolving life of San Jerónimo Amanalco and its region over the past four decades through print, web-embedded, and e-reader enabled resources.

Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century offers a multimedia approach, including archival images and documents, original photographs, audio recordings, and extensive video. It incorporates ethnographic information gathered during the author’s four decades of research in the region. Additionally, it includes community members’ responses to the author’s research through social media, email, and video-taped comments.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781629581750

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 April 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Jay Sokolovsky is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Society, Culture and Language at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA. He is a cultural anthropologist with specialties in the globalization of indigenous Mexico, the anthropology of aging, urban anthropology, and video documentation. He is the 2013 recipient of the Textor Award for Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropological Association, and the author numerous articles and five books, including the award-winning volume, The Cultural Context of Aging (third edition, 2009). SokolovskyAEs research has been done in a Mexican indigenous community, New York's inner-city, and urban neighborhoods in England and Croatia. His latest ethnographic video, Urban Garden: Fighting for Life and Beauty , documents the community garden movement in New York City.

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