{"id":4144,"date":"2009-12-30T02:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2009-12-30T02:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:18:30","slug":"danzas-nacionalistas-the-representation-of-history-through-folkloric-dance-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/coa.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/22\/3\/257\" target=\"_blank\">Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coa.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Critique of Anthropology<\/a><br \/>\n(2002)<br \/>\nVol. 22, No. 3<br \/>\npages 257-282<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1177\/0308275X02022003758<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:iveris_martinez@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Iveris Luz Mart\u00ednez<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Johns Hopkins University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this article I argue that the nation is not only invented or imagined, but depends on activities and practices in order to be invented and imagined. Here, the focus is on dance in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venezuela\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela<\/a>, where a number of groups use what they call `folkloric dance&#8217; to construct and depict the national `culture&#8217;. This article considers the case of Danzas T\u00edpicas Maracaibo (DTM), a dance company founded in 1976 under the auspices of the government of the state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zulia\" target=\"_blank\">Zulia<\/a> in Venezuela. DTM presented a carefully crafted and selective stylized repertoire of `folk&#8217; dances from throughout the country. These re-created dances are called danzas nacionalistas, although the dances are often interchangeably referred to as `folkloric&#8217;. They are used to make statements about ethnic and cultural authenticity, and in their own way contribute to the discourse of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizaje\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a>. <strong>In Venezuela, as in much of Latin America, there is entwined in nationalist rhetoric the idea of `race&#8217; and cultural mixing, or mestizaje. Here, mestizaje does not only or necessarily imply a `racial&#8217; mixing or a mixing of `blood&#8217;, but it also refers to `culture&#8217;.<\/strong> History, and discourses of the past generally, are especially implicated in these activities and representations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela Critique of Anthropology (2002) Vol. 22, No. 3 pages 257-282 DOI: 10.1177\/0308275X02022003758 Iveris Luz Mart\u00ednez Johns Hopkins University In this article I argue that the nation is not only invented or imagined, but depends on activities and practices in order to be invented and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,24,21,459,8],"tags":[1659,1662,1660,1661],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-critique-of-anthropology","tag-danzas-tipicas-maracaibo","tag-iveris-luz-martinez","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}