scholarly journals DAS URNAS ETRUSCAS PARA OS CORRIDOS MEXICANOS: a sobrevivência de uma fórmula

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (28) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
LEONARDO BENTO DE ANDRADE

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar a trajetória do gesto contido em uma das gravuras do ”corrido” ”Aquá­ la Calavera está, Señores, de toditos los buenos valedores” (1900-1910), do gravador mexicano José Guadalupe Posada. No ato do esqueleto, que golpeia com sua foice um outro caá­do de joelhos, vemos a irrupção de uma força patética que já aparece na cultura material etrusca e sobrevive sorrateiramente até nossos dias. Diego Rivera considera Posada um genial e autêntico artista, com uma produção puramente mexicana, que serviu como uma forte figura para o seu esforço de construção de uma identidade mexicana pós-revolucionária. No entanto, por meio do exercá­cio dos conceitos warburguianos de ”Nachleben” e ”Pathosformeln”, notamos que a narrativa preparada por Rivera pode ser pensada através de uma perspectiva inatual, anacrônica, portanto, não-pura, percebendo assim as nuances da narrativa estabelecida pelo muralista.Palavras-chave: José Guadalupe Posada. Calavera. Nachleben.  FROM THE ETRUSCAN URNS TO THE MEXICAN CORRIDOS: the survival of a formula  Abstract: The present paper aims to analyze the trajectory of the gesture contained in one of the engravings of the ”corrido” ”Aquá­ la Calavera está, Señores, de toditos los buenos valedores” (1900-1910), of the Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada. In the act of the skeleton, which strikes with his sickle another one fallen on his knees, we see the irruption of a pathetic force that already appears in the Etruscan material culture and sneakily survives up to our days. Diego Rivera considers Posada a brilliant and authentic artist, with a purely Mexican production that served as a strong figure for his effort to build a post-revolutionary Mexican identity. However, through the exercise of the Warburguian concepts of "Nachleben" and "Pathosformeln", we note that the narrative prepared by Rivera can be thought through a non-current, anachronistic, and therefore, non-pure perspective, thus perceiving the nuances of the narrative established by the muralist.Keywords: José Guadalupe Posada. Calavera. Nachleben.    DE LAS URNAS ETRUSCAS PARA LOS CORRIDOS MEXICANOS: la supervivencia de una fórmulaResumen: El presente artá­culo tiene como objetivo analizar la trayectoria del gesto contenido en una de las grabaciones del corrido ”Aquá­ la Calavera está, Señores, de toditos los buenos valedores” (1900-1910), del grabador mexicano José Guadalupe Posada. En el acto del esqueleto, que golpea con su hoz a otro caá­do de rodillas, vemos la irrupción de una fuerza patética que ya aparece en la cultura material etrusca y sobrevive sorpresivamente hasta nuestros dá­as. Diego Rivera considera Posada un genial y auténtico artista, con una producción puramente mexicana, que sirvió como una fuerte figura para su esfuerzo de construcción de una identidad mexicana post-revolucionaria. Sin embargo, a través del ejercicio de los conceptos warburguianos de ”Nachleben” y ”Pathosformeln”, notamos que la narrativa preparada por Rivera puede ser pensada a través de una perspectiva inatual, anacrónica, por lo tanto, no pura, que se percibe asá­ los matices de la narrativa establecida por el muralista.Palabras clave: José Guadalupe Posada. Calavera. Nachleben.

Mexico’s traumatic Revolution (1910–1917) attested to stark divisions that had existed in the country for many years. Following the conflict, postrevolutionary leaders attempted to unify the country’s diverse (particularly indigenous) population under the umbrella of official mestizaje. Indigenous Mexicans would have to assimilate to the state by undergoing projects of “modernization” that entailed industrial growth through the imposition of a market-based economy. One of the most remarkable aspects of this nation-building project was the postrevolutionary government’s decision to use art to communicate discourses of official mestizaje. Until at least the 1970s, state-funded cultural artists whose work buoyed official discourses by positing mixed-race identity as a key component of an authentic Mexican identity. State officials viewed the hybridity of indigenous and female bodies with technology as paramount in their attempts to articulate a new national identity. As they fused the body with technology through medicine, education, industrial agriculture, and factory work, state officials believed that they could eradicate indigenous “primitivity” and transform Amerindians into full-fledged members of the nascent, mestizo state. This book discusses the work of José Vasconcelos, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, El Santo, and Carlos Olvera. These artists—and many others—held diametrically opposed worldviews and used very different media while producing works during different decades. Nevertheless, each of these artists posited the fusion of the body with technology as key to forming an “authentic” Mexican identity.


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Book Reviews

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp.  Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-93
Author(s):  
Jennifer Novotny
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2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-44
Author(s):  
Christopher Johnson

The work of French ethnologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–86) represents an important episode in twentieth-century intellectual history. This essay follows the development of Leroi-Gourhan's relationship to the discipline of ethnology from his early work on Arctic Circle cultures to his post-war texts on the place of ethnology in the human sciences. It shows how in the pre-war period there is already a conscious attempt to articulate a more comprehensive form of ethnology including the facts of natural environment and material culture. The essay also indicates the biographical importance of Leroi-Gourhan's mission to Japan as a decisive and formative experience of ethnographic fieldwork, combining the learning of a language with extended immersion in a distinctive material and mental culture. Finally, it explores how in the post-war period Leroi-Gourhan's more explicit meta-commentaries on the scope of ethnology argue for an extension of the discipline's more traditional domains of study to include the relatively neglected areas of language, technology and aesthetics.


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