Creating Culture, Performing Community
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Creating Culture, Performing Community

An Angahuan Wedding Story

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eBook - ePub

Creating Culture, Performing Community

An Angahuan Wedding Story

About this book

Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, México, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhépecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account of ritual practices, author Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera focuses on the tembuchakua, or wedding rituals, analyzing their creation, performance, and transformation within the P'urhépecha community. By proposing alternative approaches to understanding indigeneity, Martínez-Rivera showcases how people carefully transform their cultural practices and rearticulate and perform their identities.

Thus Creating Culture, Performing Community has three main aims: to analyze how people create their own culture; to showcase how cultural practices are performed to reflect particular ideas of what it means to be a member of a community; and to move beyond limited understandings of indigenous identity and cultural practices.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Getting Married in Angahuan
  9. Chapter 1. Under the Volcano’s Shadow: Angahuan and the P’urhépecha Area
  10. Chapter 2. Carrying the Uarhota: Courtship Rituals and Youth Cultures in Angahuan
  11. Chapter 3. Te Toca: Eloping versus Asking for Marriage
  12. Chapter 4. Creating Culture: Organizing a Tembuchakua
  13. Interlude: Joel and Daniela’s P’urhépecha Wedding (October 2009)
  14. Chapter 5. Performing Community: Following the Confetti Trail
  15. Chapter 6. Transforming the Tembuchakua
  16. Conclusion: Getting Married in Angahuan, Revisited
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. About the Author