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Liminal sovereignty : Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican culture /

Examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. The author focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Janzen, Rebecca, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Colección:SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction They Did Not Come to My Mexico; Exceptionality in Mexico; History and Current Practices of the Religious Groups; Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican and in US Popular Culture; Overview of Chapters; Chapter 1. Mennonites, Mormons, and the Registration of Foreigners in the 1930s and 1940s: A Rare Attempt to Promote Integration; Chapter 2. Whose Land Is It: Mormons, Ejidos, and Agrarian Reform; Chapter 3. Mennonites and Agrarian Reform: Can Mennonites be Mexican?
  • Chapter 4. Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico's Drug Wars: Criminals and Victims on Screen and in LiteratureChapter 5. Contact Zones in Stellet Licht [Silent Light] and in Las Mujeres Flores/The Flower Women; Chapter One Mennonites, Mormons, and the Registration of Foreigners in the 1930s and 1940s: A Rare Attempt to Promote Integration; Elena Farnsworth y Martineau Baker; The Registration in the Context of the Government's Nation-Building Policies; The Registration Cards in the Context of Policy and Cultures; An Overall Perspective; Gender Perspectives on Women
  • Gender Perspectives and Ideal MothersGender Perspectives of Men; A Perspective Based on the Use of Spanish; Chapter Two Whose Land Is It: Mormons, Ejidos, and Agrarian Reform; Mormon Colonization in Mexico; A Brief History of Agrarian Reform; Colonia Pacheco; Colonia Dublán, Colonia Juárez, and the Casas Grandes Ejido; Murder in Dublán: Mormons Killing Off Opponents in the 1930s; 1950s: Land Is Ineligible for Sale; Tension between Progress and Rights in the 1960s; Expansion Committee in the 1970s; Bureaucratic Inaction, 1979-81
  • 2012-14: The Casas Grandes Ejido's Moral Weight and Legal PrecedentLeBaron Colony; Chapter Three Mennonites and Agrarian Reform: Can Mennonites be Mexican?; Mexican Scholars and Journalists' Ideas about Mennonites; Land Conflicts in Zacatecas; La Batea; La Honda; Chapter Four Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico's Drug Wars: Criminals and Victims on Screen and in Literature; The Development of the Drug Violence and Related Popular Culture; Works of Popular Culture That Feature Mennonites and Mormons; The Bridge; Eleanor's Personal Story; Eleanor and Two Adolescent Boys; Eleanor and Jaime
  • Los héroes del norteMacBurro; Los güeros del norte and México: 45 voces contra la barbarie; Chapter Five Contact Zones in Stellet Licht [Silent Light] and Las Mujeres Flores/The Flower Women; Contact Zones, Photography, and the Representation of Death; Reygadas' Silent Light; Contact Zones in Silent Light; Voth Family Breakfast, Johan's Conversation with a Friend, and Radio Music; Technology Overtakes Johan's Conversation with his Father and Esther Working in the Fields; Johan's Tryst with Marianne, and the Voth Children in a Stranger's Van