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Creating Culture, Performing Community

An Angahuan Wedding Story
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Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhepecha community in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhepecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account of ritual practices, author Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera focuses on the tembuchakua, or wedding rituals, analyzing their creation, performance, and transformation within the P'urhepecha community. By proposing alternative approaches to understanding indigeneity, Martinez-Rivera showcases how people carefully transform their cultural practices and rearticulate and perform their identities. Thus Creating Culture, Performing Community has three main aims: to analyze how people create their own culture; to showcase how cultural practices are performed to reflect particular ideas of what it means to be a member of a community; and to move beyond limited understandings of indigenous identity and cultural practices.
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera is Assistant Professor of English (Folklore) and Latinx Studies at the Ohio State University. She is editor (with Solimar Otero) of Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (IUP, 2021).
Acknowledgments A Note on Language, Style, and Images Introduction: Getting Married in Angahuan 1. Under the Volcano's Shadow: Angahuan and the P'urhepecha Area 2. Carrying the Uarhota: Courtship Rituals and Youth Cultures in Angahuan 3. Te Toca: Eloping vs. Asking for Marriage 4. Creating Culture: Organizing a Tembuchakua Interlude: Joel and Daniela's P'urhepecha Wedding (October 2009) 5. Performing Community: Following the Confetti Trail 6. Transforming the Tembuchakua Conclusion: Getting Married in Angahuan, revisited Bibliography Index
"In her kaleidoscopic portrait of P'urhepecha culture, Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera demonstrates that Indigenous identities and cultural practices are in constant transformation as the younger generations in Angahuan adapt and change wedding rituals to negotiate Indigenous traditions. This is a work that the fields of P'urhepecha Studies, Critical Youth Studies, and Indigenous Anthropology urgently need, especially at a time when many P'urhepecha communities are redefining indigeneity and fighting for autonomy. Martinez-Rivera teaches us that the permanence and growth of P'urhepecha life and culture, as it is lived in Angahuan, defies authenticity parameters. There is power in that assertion. This is a P'urhepecha story. It is an Indigenous story, one that should be told during a time when external forces attempt to define us as stagnant and antiquated. P'urhepecha presence is affirmed through the continuity of el costumbre, woven into our collectivity in these pages. Este trabajo es puro ambakati! We are so glad this book was written."-P'urhepecha Studies Collective "Rather than a static view of culture, Creating Culture, Performing Community shows us how P'urhepecha youth and communities are actively involved in negotiating, organizing and orchestrating their cultural productions to restrengthen the social ties and networks that allow Indigenous communities to survive and thrive. Dr. Martinez Rivera gifts us detailed accounts of the tembuchakua and unpacks the many rituals involved in P'urhepecha weddings that are representative of the distinctiveness and of the traditional alongside the new and innovative ways to be Indigenous. Creating Culture, Performing Community is a solid account of the relational nature of Indigenous knowledge and community and is a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous survivance, joy, and futurity in the midst of the ongoing violence of settler states."-Luis Urrieta, Professor, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin "In this rich and multihued ethnography, Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera takes us on a journey through Angahuan's confetti covered streets to experience the beauty and cooperation that go into producing P'urhepecha weddings. Building on conversations in Critical Indigenous Studies, Martinez Rivera frames P'urhepecha life and culture within her theory of cultural transformation, the notion that indigeneity changes and fluctuates as it incorporates and adapts to globalized influences, producing new cultural forms that rely on tradition and that remain vibrantly Indigenous. This is a timely book as our field works to actively decolonize our erasure."-Gabriela Spears-Rico, Assistant Professor of Chicano Latino Studies and American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities "Overall, this book is a significant and original contribution to scholarship, offering a nuanced understanding of cultural practices, identity, and transformation within the P'urhepecha community. Martinez-Rivera's decolonial and intimate ethnographic approach serves as a valuable model for future scholars. Additionally, by incorporating broader socio-cultural factors beyond wedding rituals-such as courtship practices, youth culture, regional violence, the war on drugs, and migration patterns-she provides a more comprehensive perspective on the region, enhancing the work's relevance and impact."-Guillermo De Los Reyes, author of Herencias Secretas: Masoneria, politica y Sociedad en Mexico "This book continues the interventions in anthropology by scholars in the fields of Indigenous and Native Studies, Folklore Studies, and Latinx Studies by presenting a unique ethnographic account that is not only of an Indigenous community, but of the Indigenous community-demonstrating both in content and form-what it means to do Anthropological work rooted in Indigenous and Native Studies methodologies. We need more of this in anthropology."-Ana-Maurine Lara, author of Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty
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