Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance

Contents

• Part One: Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos
• Introduction
• 1. Beyond Your Expectations: Twentyfirst Century Mexico
• 2. Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism
• Part Two: Tracing Ninety Years of Performism
• 3. Forging the Nation: the Postrevolutionary Years
• 4. Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City
• 5. Destination Lake Patzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with Night of the Dead
• 6. Authentic Mexican Dances: The Palace of Fine Arts and Across the Border
• 7. Films, Visual Images, and Folklorico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies
• 8. Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs
• 9. Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World
• 10. Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zacan Festival
• Part Three: Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics
• 11. In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation
• 12. Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, and the World's Fair
• 13. Celebrating and Consuming Bodies: Economic and Symbolic Production