Visible Ruins

Visible Ruins
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781477328736
ISBN-13 : 1477328734
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Book Synopsis Visible Ruins by : Mónica M. Salas Landa

Download or read book Visible Ruins written by Mónica M. Salas Landa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.


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