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... On July 30, 2001, Alejandro Toledo was inaugurated as president of Peru in a ceremony that took place in Machu Picchu—the quintessential icon of tourism in the country. In addition to national state officials and Latin American presidents, the ceremony included Andean ritual experts. One of them...

... interprets the claims about race, class, and the nation’s changing political orientation that were made by planners and participants at the ceremony. The event, which attracted several hundred thousand Cubans, served notice that not only Fidel, but the Virgin, too, could draw great multitudes to Havana’s...

...Regal Streets, 1931–1936 An elderly member of an Afro-Cuban house temple in Santiago’s barrio Los Hoyos recounts the 1931 police raid of her father’s bembé (drumming ceremony) held in honor of the Virgin. The chapter interprets the restrictions of the Machado dictatorship (1925–33), which...

... The introductory chapter provides background on the artist’s practice. Heap of Birds describes his practice as continuing a warrior tradition, comparing his art to the “sharp rocks,” or stone projectile points, found on the ground of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Nation and elsewhere in North America...

... Nazario’s participation in the presidential inauguration made him visible to a curatorial team from the National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C. When the museum was inaugurated in 2004, Nazario was invited to the ceremony, which he attended as an Andean shaman. This story...

... Going into the Constituent Assembly, some members of the indigenous and peasant movements sought to introduce radical new ecological values. Although the Bolivian National Constitution of 2009 came up short of their aspirations, it did, controversially, recognize the Pachamama, or Mother Earth...

... of 1959, and this chapter interprets the claims about race, class, and the nation’s changing political orientation that were made by planners and participants at the ceremony. The event, which attracted several hundred thousand Cubans, served notice that not only Fidel, but the Virgin, too, could draw...

... in Oruro, served in the national army, and in 1980 emigrated with his parents to the Chapare, where he soon began his rising career as a local leader and then coordinator of the coca-growers union in the department of Cochabamba. In January 2002, the Hugo Banzer Suárez government decreed a “zero coca...

... in a band in Oruro, served in the national army, and in 1980 emigrated with his parents to the Chapare, where he soon began his rising career as a local leader and then coordinator of the coca-growers union in the department of Cochabamba. In January 2002, the Hugo Banzer Suárez government decreed a “zero...

... his first songs in Shona. When he moves to the Mhangura mine to sing and drum with the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, he and guitarist Joshua Dube begin to experiment with adapting mbira music for rock band instrumentation. Thomas Mapfumo Zimbabwean nationalism the Springfields Hallelujah...

...Dictatorship and Democracy The national revolutionary cycle that commenced in 1952 came to a close with the U.S.-backed military coup of General René Barrientos Ortuño in November 1964. Barrientos combined personal charisma and patronage tactics to establish the so-called Military-Peasant...