Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.9
M. Bavel
This article examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers from the sporting spectacle of lucha libre in Mexico City in the 1950s. Set against broader moral preoccupations about the growing popularity and visibility of lucha libre in Mexican society as a result of its broadcasting on television, luchadoras were seen as examples of transgressive femininity, which rendered attempts to make them invisible necessary. This work joins the efforts of scholars who write the history of women’s participation and exclusion from sporting activities and contributes to the growing fields of sports studies and studies of mass culture within Mexico.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.160
Adela Pineda Franco
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.61
Nora E. Jaffary
A body of nearly ninety criminal trials for abortion and infanticide in nineteenth-century Yucatán reveal some contradictory traits. On one hand, the testimony that licensed physicians provided to courts about the nature of the medicines that midwives and boticarios supplied to pregnant Mayan women was surprisingly respectful and supportive of these unlicensed health practitioners. The cases reveal both the ongoing practice of Mayan medicinal and botanical knowledge in obstetrical health at the close of the nineteenth century and, despite public rhetoric to the contrary, individual doctors’ tolerance of, or accommodation to, such practices. On the other hand, the local judges who tried these cases displayed much less accommodation to Mayan defendants, reflecting the pronounced Mayan and non-Mayan social and political tensions that characterized the era of the peninsula’s Caste War.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.476
C. Ramos
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.367
John Tutino
In 1800, New Spain was the richest region of the Americas, socially diverse, deeply unequal, stabilized by a regime of judicial mediation. The Iguala movement, led by Agustín de Iturbide, in 1821 severed the tie between Spain and New Spain, the bond that had long sustained the power of the Spanish Empire. But the Mexico proclaimed in 1821 came out of years of revolution. The break began when Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, setting off debates about sovereignty in Mexico City, leading to military a coup that kept silver flowing to Spain. Two years of political debates and social predations led to the 1810 Hidalgo revolt. Attacks on property and trade broke silver capitalism by 1812, when the Cádiz Constitution promised liberal rights to back armed powers in Spain and New Spain. Insurgents fought on, making new communities and breaking oligarchic families while women challenged patriarchy. New Spain was gone in 1821, when military commanders and struggling oligarchs claimed independence. This essay offers a synthesis of the pivotal transformations—underway from 1808—that made the break with Spain possible, perhaps inevitable—and made the construction of the Mexico envisioned in Iguala impossible.
1800年,新西班牙是美洲最富有的地区,社会多样化,极度不平等,由司法调解制度稳定下来。1821年,由Agustín de ituride领导的伊瓜拉运动切断了西班牙和新西班牙之间的联系,而这种联系长期以来一直维持着西班牙帝国的权力。但1821年宣布的墨西哥是多年革命的结果。1808年,拿破仑入侵西班牙,引发了墨西哥城关于主权的争论,导致了一场军事政变,白银源源不断地流入西班牙。两年的政治辩论和社会掠夺导致了1810年的伊达尔戈起义。1812年,当Cádiz宪法承诺支持西班牙和新西班牙武装力量的自由权利时,对财产和贸易的攻击打破了白银资本主义。叛乱分子继续战斗,建立了新的社区,打破了寡头家庭,而女性则挑战了父权制。1821年,当军事指挥官和挣扎中的寡头们宣布独立时,新西班牙消失了。这篇文章综合了从1808年开始的关键转变,这使得与西班牙的决裂成为可能,也许是不可避免的,也使得伊瓜拉设想的墨西哥的建设成为不可能。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.394
R. A. Hernández Castillo, Elisa Cruz Rueda
En este ensayo, abordamos, desde la etnohistoria y la antropología política, el significado que tuvo el evento histórico conocido como la independencia de México para los pueblos originarios. En diálogo con la literatura que aborda el colonialismo como una estructura que sigue marcando la vida de los pueblos indígenas –y no como un evento histórico que se vio interrumpido por las guerras de independencia–, analizamos el continuum de violencias coloniales que ha caracterizado la historia contemporánea de estos pueblos. Documentamos las manifestaciones de estas violencias durante el gobierno actual de Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–23), tomando como ejemplo el principal proyecto de “desarrollo” de la actual administración, conocido como el Tren Maya. A partir de la información recabada en una investigación colaborativa, desde el activismo legal de una de las autoras, analizamos los impactos y resistencias que se han desarrollado contra este proyecto, el cual presentamos como una forma de despojo territorial.
在这篇文章中,我们从民族历史和政治人类学的角度探讨了被称为墨西哥独立的历史事件对土著人民的意义。在对话与讨论殖民主义文学结构仍标志着土著人民的生活—而非一个历史性的事件,被打断了独立战争—,我们自始至终一直存在的殖民地暴力这些人民的当代历史。我们记录了andres Manuel lopez Obrador(2018 - 23)现任政府期间这些暴力事件的表现,以现任政府的主要“发展”项目玛雅列车为例。基于合作研究中收集的信息,从一位作者的法律行动主义,我们分析了对这个项目的影响和阻力,我们将其作为一种领土掠夺的形式呈现出来。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.484
I. M. López
{"title":"Review: María Luisa Puga y el espacio de la reconstrucción, edited by Carmen Patricia Tovar, Amanda L. Petersen y Alejandro Puga","authors":"I. M. López","doi":"10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.484","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"259 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77143061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.479
M. T. Wood
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.3.427
Daniel Kent Carrasco
El artículo analiza la historia del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura (CLC) en México durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960. En base al análisis documentos localizados en los archivos de la International Association for Cultural Freedom, el ensayo plantea que el CLC contribuyó a cimentar la aceptación de un “espíritu liberal” –definido por ideales antiestatistas, “postideológicos” y antiutópicos– entre las élites intelectuales del México de la temprana Guerra Fría. Un argumento central del texto es que, a través de su promoción de este ideal, el CLC jugó un papel central en la conformación de las coordenadas del debate público en torno a las ideas de democracia, el autoritarismo y el comunismo durante las últimas décadas del siglo XX en México.
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