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Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory, Paperback / softback Book

Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory Paperback / softback

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The culture of the Nuevomexicanos, forged by Spanish-speaking residents of New Mexico over the course of many centuries, is known for its richness and diversity.

Expressing New Mexico contributes to a present-day renaissance of research on Nuevomexicano culture by assembling eleven original and noteworthy essays.

They are grouped under two broad headings: expressing culture and expressing place.?

Expressing culture derives from the notion of expressive culture,? referring to fine art? productions, such as music, painting, sculpture, drawing, dance, drama, and film, but it is expanded here to include folklore, religious ritual, community commemoration, ethnopolitical identity, and the pragmatics of ritualized response to the difficult problems of everyday life.

Intertwined with the concept of expressive culture is that of place? in relation to New Mexico itself. Place is addressed directly by four of the authors in this anthology and is present in some way and in varying degrees among the rest.

Place figures prominently in Nuevomexicano ?character,? contributors argue. They assert that Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas construct and develop a sense of self that is shaped by the geography and culture of the state as well as by their heritage.

Many of the articles deal with recent events or with recent reverberations of important historical events, which imbues the collection with a sense of immediacy.

Rituals, traditions, community commemorations, self-concepts, and historical revisionism all play key roles.

Contributors include both prominent and emerging scholars united by their interest in, and fascination with, the distinctiveness of Nuevomexicano culture.

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