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Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
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Paperback. Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos.
In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to ... Read more
Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos.
In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826343116
SKU
V9780826343116
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About Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman is an assistant professor at St. Edward's University, USA.
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