There's a Word for It in Mexico

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quick and to the point.......2007-02-08

I thought this book was very good. I know of no other that gets to the point more quicky without delving into lengthy narratives about the history, culture etc. As a frequent traveler and student of Mexican culture for over 40 years, I can attest to it's honest and factual information. If your going to Mexico for business or pleasure, get this book!

Good data but Catholic basher.......2006-12-13

As a frequent traveler to Mexico over the last 25 years, I enjoyed a lot of the explanations in the book, but found the ever-constant references to the Catholic church as being the root of Mexico's problems more than a bit overdone.

Extremely boring.......2006-04-26

I love to read, and tried hard to read this one. It has its interesting points, but the book just seems to ramble. The best word I could think of to describe it is "boring".

Deceptive Title.......2006-01-31

It is a good book - great, in fact.

However, the book shares both title and ISBN# (it's the same book!!!!) as: "NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words : The Complete Guide to Key Words That Express How the Mexicans Think, Communicate, and Behave". This was especially frustrating when I purchased both books as a special offer through Amazon.

I contacted the publisher and Amazon both, but did not receive a satisfactory answer (ie; they will continue to sell the same book with a different title and cover only). Fortunately, Amazon WILL give you your money back if you return it!

A Mexican opinion if you don't mind.......2005-05-30

First, I've got to say that the "NTC's dictionary of Mexican cultural code words" (1996) offer to be sold with this book is exactly the same! I bouth "There's..." right from this site but it has the ISBN of the dictionary (0-8442-7959-5). It has the same cover as shown here. Go there (just skip the NTC's in the search bar) and you'll even find another same commentary. Now, I'll go to the contents. I left this review in there as well, just slightly different though.

These books are terrible. I can well make my commentaries because I am Mexican by all sides and know Mexico. I will mentions chapter 120 mostly since it may be the worse one. The rest of it is just bad.

I am well aware that it's not up to NTC and Boyé to publish one point of view or another. But they must publish quality works. So, wat wuld yu tink if one of iour writers wrote as I do in thys sentense? This dictionary is full of orthography mistakes and bad translations all over. One reader has already said it, but he didn't realize to which extend. That's normal from a non-Mexican. Let's see some examples of words and famous sentences around Mexico:

By the way, Boyé's translation is BT, Actual Meaning is AM and commentaries is CM

"Robar no es verguenza. Robar y que lo agarren es verguenza"
BT: It is not a shame to kill; but to kill and get caught is a shame. (Chapt. 37)
AM: Stealing is not a shame. Stealing and get caught is shame
CM:
1)The meaning is depressing, but far less immoral.
2)The real saying is a bit different

" " (originalsentence not showed)
BT: Respect (for all people) is the foundation of peace.
Pag. 264, chapt 119
AM: Respecting others people's rights is the peace.
CM:
The Original sentence is "El respecto al derecho ajeno es la paz"

Vacile, relajo, relajientos
BT:
-Vacile: to vacillate, to dilly-dally, to never make up one's mind, to avoid responsability.
-Relajo: chaos.
-Relajientos: people who introduce a caotic element into everything they do, ....and to be more interested in human relatios and spiritual things than in hard work and sticking to projects they start.
AM:
-All of these terms are synonyms.
Vacile is "vacileo" and is used especially when poking fun at someone in an easy way, NOT in a mean one. It just means kidding, goophy or maybe teasing. This term is regarded today as childish and you'll hardly hear it.
These terms do imply some chaos, but they simply mean having fun; nothing to do with spiritually at all. We use normal terms for the meanings attached to these ones: irresponsible and disorganized.
-Boyé got this definition from Mexicans, but from anthropologist ones. Most intellectual can't see reality.

Boyé never showed much real contact with Mexicans. It even seems that he was thye typical foreigner in any nation that self-segregates to his/her own community or contact the locals very little. It even seems that his single one friend was someone called "Mike" who as any other rich Mexican worships rich countries (or any foreign nation) I don't exaggerate when I say "worship". One of the readers at Amazon.com made really harsh judgments of Boyé since he didn't mention a single Mexican woman amongst his many commentaries of them. But as I read the book I found she was right, Boyé's bases are extremely weak. I can almost say that whenever he doesn't base his information with Mike's knowledge, he relies in intellectual's opinions that he doesn't even mention often, barely one big name like Octavio Paz, let alone a bibliographical reference. And as I said in the former table, most intellectuals usually can't see reality. The incredibly bad translation of "relajiento" is a very good example; the anthropologist who stated its meaning blew things out of proportion. It was like saying that "having fun" means being promiscuous, taking drugs, etc. Yes, "having fun" can mean that but only in strange exceptions; it has a saner meaning, like when a mom drops her kids in school and tells them "have fun".

Not only Boyé didn't show good knowledge of Mexico, he didn't show it of USA either. He said in chapter 120,
Americans and other Anglos, on the other hand, have been programmed to regard personal responsibility as a positive attribute.

Sorry guys, it turns out that I have also been to your nation and I always strove to get to knows American people unlike the typical foreigner self segregated foreigner. I even married one of you! -that's why I bother to look for a book to explain Mexico to my wife. Not only this, I also lived in Illinois, the tort state where people have sued for things like a hot coffee! So, please don't publish such works from people pushes others to use derogative terms like "egg-heads" And remember, the sentence above is just one example of his very doubtful opinions.

The best indication that he didn't melted with us is that when beginning the book he mentioned that we over agree. I've heard it in two other publications as well. That's wrong, but I think that's the first impression of foreigners in Canada, USA and Mexico (something in common). I also had that impression of Americans when I just arrived USA. As I got to know you more and more I found out that it's almost all the other way around. It's the same with Mexicans. So, you've got a good tip to tell biased writers when they say this.

In short, Boyé's book has the worst of the two current American trends, liberalism and conservative. Like a liberal he pretends to understand foreign things but ends up focusing most in the bad side of people -the best example are feminists- And as conservative he appeals to baseless or even hypocrite righteousness. His is too liberal biased on his views of Mexican history. Why did he disagree with a huge group of Mexicans in USA (Chicanos) for trying to take American culture when most of book is about the worst of Mexican people? Saying that they were rejected is a bad answer. Again, I know it's not up to NTC to check an author's views, but for the same freedom of expression I write this letter. A negative book can be published about any nation.....well except France because they're expert brain-washers (just read "French or Foe?" or Culture Shock: France) There have been people both in here and the dictionary's site who said we shouln't be angry. Most of them would be angry too if a book like this was written about their countries.

Boyé might well be right in his negative views of us (easy job to look at defects) I can tell that since I know it since birth. Yet, you must do things right. This book is a freshmen scratch work, it's dishonest to sell it.

The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos

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The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos
Paula Gunn Allen , Willa Cather , Frank Hamilton Cushing , Tony Hillerman , Oliver La Farge , Oliver Littlebird , Barry Lopez , Leslie Marmon Silko , Simon J. Ortiz , Joe S. Sando , Rina Swentzell , and Frank Waters
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This peerless compendium, voted best nonfiction book of the year by the Mountains and Plains Booksellers' Association, pays tribute to one of North America's most enduring cultures, offering a rich sampling of works by noted Pueblo and non-native scholars, writers, and artists. Carefully selected from an exhaustive catalog of sources, the more than one hundred text selections include works of prose, poetry, autobiography, and historical narrative. Seventy-five unusual illustrations--from a rare drawing by D. H. Lawrence to striking portraits by photographer Edward S. Curtis and the brilliantly colorful paintings of Pablita Velarde and Helen Hardin--illuminate life in the pueblos, recording ceremonies, symbols, and spaces.

Lavishly designed in five colors, this eminently readable volume offers a story and mood for everyone and an authentic introduction to the cultural legacy of the ancient peoples of the Southwest. Fully annotated with bibliography, source notes, maps, and biographical entries, and with an inviting thematic organization for the casual reader, this beautiful book will find a permanent place in homes, libraries, and collections across the country.

Contributors include:

Paula Gunn Allen
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Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product

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Get a whiff of the knowledge within
this poop don't stink!
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A literary follow-up to Fast Food Nation

Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product
Dave Praeger
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Is "The Origin of Feces" a Darwinian concern? Perhaps not, but it is the title to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and unexpectedly revealing exploration of human behavior by the webmaster behind the popular PoopReport.com.

This book is not a history of poop, but a study of today. Its goal is to understand how poop affects us, how we view it, and why; to appreciate its impact from the moment it slides out of our anal sphincters to the moment it enters the sewage treatment plant; to explore how we've arrived at this strange discomfort and confusion about a natural product of our bodies; to see how this contradiction-the natural as unnatural-shapes our minds, relationships, environment, culture, economics, media, and art.

Paul Provenza, the director of The Aristocrats, says in his foreword: "It's shocking to think that a book about poop can be considered an act of courage. But it is. Most of us have knee-jerk responses to the topic that we are not even aware of. Attitudes that, like the awful stench of poop itself, permeate all of society and culture. This book has some very profound and beautiful things to say. It takes a dirty, smelly, unpleasant subject like shit and brings forth ideas that are empowering, dignifying and life affirming."

Customer Reviews:

The Review.......2007-08-04

This is a very funny, well written book about a bizarre subject. I found myself laughing out loud......

Get a whiff of the knowledge within.......2007-05-18

Once you pick it up and stick your nose in it, you will be permanently stained... with knowledge and insight!

This book is both entertaining and informative, and scientifically argues why no one else will touch the subject matter.

This makes the ideal gift: I handed my Poop Culture over to my mom, and she loved it.

this poop don't stink!.......2007-05-11

This book will change the way you feel about poop. Not only informative, but very funny. I purchased multiple copies to give to my relatives.

The Political And Cultural Implications Of Poop(ing).......2007-05-10

Discussion of bodily functions and waste disposal issues has traditionally been classified in most cultures as 'too much information.' Victorian mores were obsessed with depicting sexuality and anything regarding the body as 'shameful.' These attitudes exist today, influencing a huge segment of the population which thinks that, beyond toilet training, going to the bathroom is vile and disgusting.

Enter David Praeger's 'Poop Culture,' a well-documented and researched, intellectual outing of a mostly-closeted subject. This book follows a timeline from our earliest, food-gathering ancestors and their completely laissez-faire attitude toward waste disposal through the development of privies and cesspits to the beginnings of our modern infrastructure/sewer systems and flush toilets.

There's also humor, medical advice and pop culture here, presented in a non-sensational, thoughtful manner with unique sociological and cultural perspectives. A healthful, enlightening read.

A literary follow-up to Fast Food Nation.......2007-05-03

Considering the current uproar over our consumption of fossil fuels, everyone in America should read the chapter on the environmental impact of flush toilets. Overall, this is a well-written, engaging book of surprising depth and scope. Oh yeah, and there are poop jokes.

Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body

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Recommended for college-level Asian studies readers
Amazing Book

Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body
Elena Creef
Manufacturer: NYU Press
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ASIN: 0814716229
Release Date: 2004-01-01

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As we have been reminded by the renewed acceptance of racial profiling, and the detention and deportation of hundreds of immigrants of Arab and Muslim descent on unknown charges following September 11, in times of national crisis we take refuge in the visual construction of citizenship in order to imagine ourselves as part of a larger, cohesive national American community.

Beginning with another moment of national historical trauma—December 7, 1941 and the subsequent internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans— Imaging Japanese America unearths stunning and seldom seen photographs of Japanese Americans by the likes of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Mitatake. In turn, Elena Tajima Creef examines the perspective from inside, as visualized by Mine Okubo's Maus-like dramatic cartoon and by films made by Asian Americans about the internment experience. She then traces the ways in which contemporary representations of Japanese Americans in popular culture are inflected by the politics of historical memory from World War II. Creef closes with a look at the representation of the multiracial Japanese American body at the turn of the millennium.

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Recommended for college-level Asian studies readers.......2004-06-06

Elena Tajima Creef's Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction Of Citizenship, Nation, And The Body is a recommended pick for college-level Asian studies readers: it begins with the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and supplements photos with insights on how American popular culture viewed Japanese-Americans. An intriguing cultural analysis.

Amazing Book.......2004-01-31

From the power of the cover photograph, to the images and words inside, Professor Creef has written a book that - as the above review says - correlates to the times in which we now live, while also offering an insider's view of the impact and power images possess. Anyone interested in the gaze, Japanese America, self-representation and cultural studies should definitely buy this book. It will certainly occupy a permanent place on my bookshelf.

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

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The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

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With over one thousand reviews of multicultural children's books and related materials, organized by theme and reading level, The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers offers a comprehensive, definitive resource guide to multicultural books for children. The reviews are organized using an innovative thematic approach designed to aid teachers and parents in integrating these works into existing reading lists and at home. In addition, the Guide includes essays on key issues in multicultural education, such as recent immigrant experiences, human rights, and building cross-cultural relationships.

Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

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Excellent text required by Academy of Art University course

Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
Lucy R. Lippard
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Now in paperback, the classic book that defined the multicultural art movement, updated with a new introduction. The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different media, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art; it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures. Lucy R. Lippard, one of our most original and insightful writers on art, challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of images in a changing society. Among her subjects are the uncertainty of exile; the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot; and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory. The New Press edition features a new introduction by Lippard that reconsiders the issues first presented in Mixed Blessings when it appeared in 1990 and evaluates the state of multicultural art today.

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Excellent text required by Academy of Art University course.......2007-03-09

Covers minority art, lots of colored pictures and artist comments/barriers in representation and discrimination. A must read for all artists.

Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters

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A superb resource for educators

Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters
John Stansfield
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ASIN: 1563088010

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The diverse peoples, landscapes, and histories of Western North America come alive with these autobiographical excerpts, author profiles, and activities. Focusing on the childhood and young adult experience of 10 of the West's most intriguing writers, each chapter presents engrossing personal narrative, biographical sketches, a resource bibliography, and numerous learning activities. A bonus section features 20 other Western writers for further exploration.

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A superb resource for educators.......2002-07-12

Writers Of The American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters by storyteller and freelance writer John Stansfield is a listing of several American West writers worthy of classroom study and their works, as well as advice on how to incorporate their books into a literature, language arts or social studies curriculum. Featured authors include Beverly Cleary, John Muir, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), and more. Writers Of The American West is a superb resource for educators seeking to create an effective lesson plan for students in grades 4 through 8 involving literature.

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Northwest Native Arts: Basic Forms
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Hispanic-American Crafts Kids Can Do! (Multicultural Crafts Kids Can Do!)

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We used it - but not the best

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We used it - but not the best.......2007-08-18

I made the migajón miniaturas with my kids, and they enjoyed it. Otherwise the crafts are all repeated in other books I have, or too advanced for my preschool aged children. I recommend HANDS-ON LATIN AMERICA by Yvonne Y. Merrill.

Sun Circles and Human Hands : The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries

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Required Reading

Sun Circles and Human Hands : The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries
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Required Reading.......2005-02-21

Around for nearly 50 years, this classic book is a requirement for anyone studying the archaeology and iconography of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

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