Laura A Lewis

Broschiertes Buch

Chocolate and Corn Flour

History, Race, and Place in the Making of Black Mexico

Beschreibung

Chocolate and Corn Flour explores the history and contemporary culture of African descended Mexicans in the agricultural village of San Nicolás on the southern Pacific Coast of Guerrero (the Costa Chica). This ethnography emphasizes that local history is crucial to understanding identity and explores how racial categories are complicated by globalization and the influence of outsiders.

Autor

Laura A. Lewis is Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University and the author of Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft and Caste in Colonial Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351320
• ISBN-10: 0822351323
• Artikelnr.: 34163223