It's a book launch celebration! Creating Culture, Performing Community: An Angahuan Wedding Story is a new publication by assistant professor Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera. Mintzi serves as faculty in the Department of English, the Center for Folklore Studies and Latinx Studies. Published by Indiana University Press, the book is available for purchase and is also available for free through Open Access.
Mintzi will be joined by Dr. Katherine Borland, Dr. fabian romero and Ph.D. student Luis Moreno for a panel discussion. Light refreshments will be served.
Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, México, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhépecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account of ritual practices, author Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera focuses on the tembuchakua, or wedding rituals, analyzing their creation, performance, and transformation within the P'urhépecha community. By proposing alternative approaches to understanding indigeneity, Martínez-Rivera showcases how people carefully transform their cultural practices and rearticulate and perform their identities.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone. For a zoom link, contact Dr. Martinez-Rivera.
