Tecuanes, tlacololeros, lobitos y tlaminques

En los Estados de México, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla y Oaxaca; y en la República de El Salvador, en las fiestas patronales de los pueblos nahuas, amuzgos, mixtecos, y mestizos, se representan danzas comedias de viejitos chistosos cazando a una fiera. En el libro se defiende la hipótesis de que todas las danzas comedias del jaguar y los viejitos cómicos son variantes con distinto nombre. Dan alegría a las fiestas patronales de los pueblos en su mayoría de origen nahua. Por orden de frecuencia, las danzas comedias del tigre (jaguar) más abundantes son: Tecuanes, tlacololeros, lobos,...

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"Monographic edition dedicated to study the life and modernistic designs of architect Henonin (b. Mexico, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA since 1984) with a guide to review his architectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and México as well as in theUnited States. Henonin was part of the first generation to graduate from the Architecture School of the University and one of the first architects of the city of Guadalajara"--Provided by vendor.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...