Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in ...iconic script (picture writing), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the Tlohtzin Map appear to retain and emphasize both pre-Hispanic content and also pre-Hispanic form, despite being produced almost a generation after the Aztecs surrendered to Hernn Corts in 1521. Yet, as this pioneering study makes plain, the reality is far more complex. Eduardo de J. Douglas offers a detailed critical analysis and historical contextualization of the manuscripts to argue that colonial economic, political, and social concerns affected both the content of the three Tetzcocan pictorial histories and their archaizing pictorial form. As documents composed by indigenous people to assert their standing as legitimate heirs of the Aztec rulers as well as loyal subjects of the Spanish Crown and good Catholics, the Tetzcocan manuscripts qualify as subtle yet shrewd negotiations between indigenous and Spanish systems of signification and between indigenous and Spanish concepts of real property and political rights. By reading the Tetzcocan manuscripts as calculated responses to the changes and challenges posed by Spanish colonization and Christian evangelization, Douglass study significantly contributes to and expands upon the scholarship on central Mexican manuscript painting and recent critical investigations of art and political ideology in colonial Latin America.
Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the indigenous hereditary nobles that governed Tetzcoco faced both opportunities ...and challenges, and were forced to adapt from the very moment of contact. This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this tumultuous period of conquest and colonialism, and negotiated a place for themselves under Spanish rule. While Tetzcoco's native nobles experienced a remarkable degree of continuity with the pre-contact period, especially in the first few decades after conquest, various forces and issues, such as changing access to economic resources, interethnic marriage, and intra-familial conflict, transformed Tetzcoco's ruling family into colonial subjects by the century's end.
Ecuador, patria de todos Vázquez, Jorge Dávila
Kipus (Quito, Ecuador),
07/2014
36
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
El libro, un manual que forma parte de la Colección Temas de la Corporación Editora Nacional, apareció, con el auspicio de la Universidad Andina y de la Organización de Estados Americanos para la ...Ciencia y la Cultura, conjuntamente con Colombia, por un país humano y plural de Medófilo Medina y Óscar Murillo; Perú, democracia y sentido de futuro, de Rolando Ames y Luis Pinto; y Bolivia, plural, diversa y unida, de Dino Palacios. El gran talento organizativo detrás de una excepcional universidad de posgrado, como es la Andina "Simón Bolívar", sin duda es Ayala Mora, quien imbuido de ese espíritu único que proviene del mundo mágico-mítico de los Andes, lo analiza, lo celebra, lo vive intensamente, y hace que quienes forman parte del estupendo centro de estudios superiores de su rectoría compartan esos intereses tan hondamente humanísticos y americanos. Ayala se ocupa del desentrañamiento situacional de los principales grupos que conforman el Ecuador: indígenas, mestizos, afroecuatorianos y esos otros pobladores que son en sí mismos una diversidad, hasta culminar en el fenómeno de la nueva migración, ya no desde, si no hacia el país.
N-Methyl- sub(D)-aspartate (NMDA) receptor (NMDAR) activation and downstream signaling are important for neuronal function. Activation of prosurvival Src family kinases and extracellular ...signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 is initiated by NMDAR activation, but the cellular organization of these kinases in relation to NMDARs is not entirely clear. We hypothesized that caveolin-1 scaffolds and coordinates protein complexes involved in NMDAR signaling and that this organization is necessary for neuronal preconditioning, whereby NMDAR activation protects neurons from subsequent ischemic cell death. We found that sublethal ischemia (SLI) or preconditioning via NMDA treatment of primary cortical neurons from neonatal rats or mice increases expression of phosphorylated (P) caveolin-1, P-Src, and P-ERK1/2. The NMDAR antagonist, MK801, or the Src inhibitor, PP2, attenuated SLI-induced preconditioning. NMDAR2B distributed to buoyant fractions and heavy fractions, partially colocalized with caveolin-1 and the membrane raft marker, cholera toxin B. Cultures of primary neurons treated with caveolin-1 small interfering RNA or from caveolin-1 mice lacked the NMDA-mediated increase in P-Src and P-ERK, as well as SLI- and NMDA-induced preconditioning. Adenovirally mediated expression of caveolin-1 in neurons from caveolin-1 super(-/-) mice restored NMDA-mediated enhancement of P-Src and P-ERK1/2, redistributed NMDAR2B to buoyant fractions, and enhanced NMDAR2B localization to membrane rafts. We conclude that caveolin-1, perhaps via its ability to scaffold key signaling components, is essential for NMDAR localization to neuronal membrane rafts, NMDAR/Src tyrosine kinase family/ERK signaling, and protection of neurons from ischemic injury and cell death.--Head, B. P., Patel, H. H., Tsutsumi Y. M., Hu, Y., Mejia, T., Mora, R. C., Insel, P. A., Roth, D. M. Drummond, J. C, Patel, P M. Caveolin-1 expression is essential for N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-mediated Src and ERK 1/2 activation and protection of primary neurons from ischemic cell death.
Svatko tko osjeti potrebu intervenirati u ve% dobrano oglodano tkivo balkanizma i balkanisti"ke kritike danas, vise oddvadeset godinapo za"etku toga kritickogpristupa, mora to u"initi oprezno, s ...opravdanim strahom da bi se tijelo uslijed operacije ipakmoglo raspasti. Izpolutanskih analiza kojepazljivo is"itavaju publicistiku, novinske "lanke, putopise i filmove, izviru nova razumijevanja balkanisti"ke egzotizacije narodnog i selja"kog, "iji su motivi i narodnja"ki melos i ratni junaci i rolling stonesi Dalmatinske zagore i li"ke stale s prasdma. Pa onda, rube%i tim distinkcijama ukusa, autori raspravu prenose na doma%i, naski teren, na razlikovanja "iji korijeni dobrano prethode ratovima na podru"ju bivse Jugoslavije pa i ozloglasavanju Balkana na Zapadu, da bi, izvode%i kritiku dosljedno, i knjigu zalbe naposljetku ispostavili neugodno blizu i neugodno osobno, umjetnicimai kolegamakoji su djenjeni i uvazeni s iste strane "fronte".
Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectivespresents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book ...argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines.
Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines-social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science.
This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Na poziv urednice ^asopisa Martine Segalen, Jasna ^apo i Valentina Gulin Zrni^ odabrale su deset radova s namjerom da prikazu diversi^ciranost i dinami^nost suvremene doma^e discipline frankofonoj ...publici, svjesne da je ovo prvi put da joj se hrvatska etnologija i kulturna antropologija cjelovitije predstavljaju. Sandi Blagoni^ ("'Kako se to mora biti Hrvat?' Centripetalni i centrifugalni u^inci resemantizacije kolektivnih identiteta") nacionalizam u poslijeratnoj Hrvatskoj promislja kroz model dominantnog identiteta i regionalne (istarske) mobilizacije, prema kojemu je istarski identitet ^as u uzletu, a ^as u sustajanju, ovisno o drzavnoj politici, a Catherine Baker ("Jezik, kulturni prostor i zna^enje u fenomenu cro-dancea") prilazi mu analiziraju^i popularnu glazbu kao dio hegemonijskog nacionalisti^kog diskursa u devedesetima. Etnogra^je prostora i vremena pokazuju da je hrvatskoj etnologiji jos uvijek teren vlastito drustvo, ali ne izolirano u prostoru, ve^ analiti^ki promatrano kao dio regije i svijeta s kojima dijeli ritam povijesnih globalnih procesa.
Cinco años de republicanismo habían convertido la antigua madre patria en un espejo donde se veían reflejados muchos de los temores y aspiraciones de las repúblicas hispanoamericanas, y cada país se ...escindió en disputas airadas, apasionadas, en torno a la guerra y a las nociones de la sociedad y del ser hispano defendidas y encarnadas por los distintos bandos: republicanos, socialistas, comunistas y anarquistas, por un lado; monárquicos, católicos y fascistas, por el otro. Además, en Tres golpes de timbal retoma otros núcleos temáticos que están en varios de sus textos precedentes: está el exilio o, mejor, el destierro que es una experiencia que Moyano ha vivido antes de dejar su patria (como hombre del interior, de la Argentina profunda) y que ha puesto en el centro de algunas de sus ficciones; la opresión de los poderosos sobre los débiles, la injusticia, la violencia; pero también la esperanza y la alegría de las gentes simples: hay una especial sensibilidad por la naturaleza en estos extraños personajes músicos, titiriteros, astrónomos muleros, enlazadores, modistas... Sin embargo, desde el año 1997 hasta nuestros días aparecen novelas que siguen las convenciones del género, entre ellas: Agustín Cueva, "Introducción a la literatura de José de la Cuadra"; Humberto E. Robles, "Paradigmas ecuatorianos (1920-1930): discordias, teorías, función de la literatura y práctica narrativa"; Fernando Tinajero, "El extraño exiliado"; Juan Valdano, "El realismo objetivista de Pedro Jorge Vera"; Bolívar Echeverría, "¿Cultura en la barbarie?; Alfonso Carrasco Vintimilla, "Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Siete Lunas y siete serpientes"; Alejandro Moreano, "Benjamín Carrión: las paradojas del Ecuador"; Abdón Ubidia, "El Éxodo de Yangana: la novela total"; Vladimiro Rivas Iturralde, "Un acercamiento a Hélice"; Diego Araujo Sánchez, "Dos textos fundacionales de la crítica del relato ecuatoriano"; Jorge Dávila Vázquez, "Icaza: un lenguaje mestizo de vanguardia"; Javier Ponce, "Un siglo de poetas solitarios"; Iván Carvajal, "El desgarrado panerotismo de Francisco Granizo"; Cecilia Ansaldo, "Adoum en varios tiempos"; Wilfrido H. Corral, "Ordenamiento de los relatos de Salvador: los del artista, y mucho después..."; Raúl Vallejo, "Miguel Donoso Pareja: Tránsito de una escritura sin concesiones"; María Augusta Vintimilla, "La crítica de poesía en el Ecuador"; Fernando Balseca, "Los ríos profundos de José de la Cuadra"; Rut Román, "Enseñarte a ser mujer o lo que la Baldomera dejó"; Alicia Ortega, "Pablo Palacio: Descrédito de la realidad, bolo suburbano y escritura"; Esteban Ponce, "El usurpador de la palabra: la agonía de dios en la poesía de César Dávila Andrade"; Cristóbal Zapata, "La ruta de los novísimos"; Marcelo Báez "Pictura et Poiesis: la transcodificación en la poesía de Medardo Ángel Silva"; Leonardo Valencia, "¿Cuánta patria necesita un novelista?"; Yanna Hadatty Mora "Boletines de mar y tierra.
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