... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it... more ... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it does not resemble in the slightest the models of Yankee City and other urban classics. Nor does it fit very well more recent descriptions of a "social mosaic" composed of established ethnic ...
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Twenty years' of collaborative research on the rise of complex society in Oaxaca, Mexico have... more Twenty years' of collaborative research on the rise of complex society in Oaxaca, Mexico have resulted in a common lan- guage between archaeologists, historians, economists, anthropologists and others. This essay summarizes eleven historical periods from the beginnings of Monte Alban in 500 B.C. to the present. These periods are characterized by greater or lesser engagement between Oaxaca and the outside world. Although the overall trend is toward increased strati- fication and secularization, periods of engagement have greater wealth and greater stratification, while periods of isolation have less total wealth and greater equality. Today's period of engagement will probably change the character of the city, as outside investors move the focus of commercial activity out of the old center of the city.
... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it... more ... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it does not resemble in the slightest the models of Yankee City and other urban classics. Nor does it fit very well more recent descriptions of a "social mosaic" composed of established ethnic ...
Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplenden... more Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplendent visual culture of Haiti and its diaspora.1 Whether in the mountains of Haiti or the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, however, their meanings vary and are contested among Haitian believers. For Catholics, the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater are, respectively, Christ’s mother and one of his apostles. For practitioners of Vodou, they might represent instead Ezili and Ogun, spirits originally from the Africa of their enslaved ancestors. And for Protestants, , they might represent the idolatry causing Haiti’s many and grave social ills. For all religious Haitians these images are deeply invested with meaning, however divergent their interpretations may be.
... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it... more ... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it does not resemble in the slightest the models of Yankee City and other urban classics. Nor does it fit very well more recent descriptions of a "social mosaic" composed of established ethnic ...
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Twenty years' of collaborative research on the rise of complex society in Oaxaca, Mexico have... more Twenty years' of collaborative research on the rise of complex society in Oaxaca, Mexico have resulted in a common lan- guage between archaeologists, historians, economists, anthropologists and others. This essay summarizes eleven historical periods from the beginnings of Monte Alban in 500 B.C. to the present. These periods are characterized by greater or lesser engagement between Oaxaca and the outside world. Although the overall trend is toward increased strati- fication and secularization, periods of engagement have greater wealth and greater stratification, while periods of isolation have less total wealth and greater equality. Today's period of engagement will probably change the character of the city, as outside investors move the focus of commercial activity out of the old center of the city.
... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it... more ... In our view, such events signal transformation and challenge, not necessarily decline. ... it does not resemble in the slightest the models of Yankee City and other urban classics. Nor does it fit very well more recent descriptions of a "social mosaic" composed of established ethnic ...
Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplenden... more Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplendent visual culture of Haiti and its diaspora.1 Whether in the mountains of Haiti or the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, however, their meanings vary and are contested among Haitian believers. For Catholics, the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater are, respectively, Christ’s mother and one of his apostles. For practitioners of Vodou, they might represent instead Ezili and Ogun, spirits originally from the Africa of their enslaved ancestors. And for Protestants, , they might represent the idolatry causing Haiti’s many and grave social ills. For all religious Haitians these images are deeply invested with meaning, however divergent their interpretations may be.
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