M J Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 21626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
You grabbed me as though you owned my body, but I’m here to say you’re wrong: Toward a letter to the Zamora sexual assailant
Developing an idiom derived from deep southern female politeness, this article calls out one of the sexual assailants whose assaults undermined the author’s career path as a historian of the Mexican revolution, its counter-revolution, of Mexican gender, ethnicity, race, and poverty. Behaving not as though the assailant – and those people and institutions supporting sexual assault – deserve to know her background, the extent of her work in Mexico …
Music, such sudden music: When Mexican women altered space in time
This fable places the Michoacán female revolutionary dancers in dialogue with the renowned Mexican poet Octavio Paz, allowing the women to reveal to him key aspects of the cultural worlds they helped devise, aspects they embodied in their illicit dance in the church. Most particularly, the fable trains Paz in Mexican female temporality, a temporality they recalibrated as they danced
Had Pilar Ternera co-written Cien Aňos de Soledad, Gabo, I’d never write you now: Toward a letter to the dead
The sadness prompted by the death of Gabriel García Márquez informs this retrospective expression of deepest gratitude, recognition of ways his literary presence accompanied my years living in Spain and Latin America. Indeed, that presence led me to lure his journalistic and fictional work into the university classes I long have taught, most particularly my seminar focusing on his exquisite One Hundred Years of Solitude. At the same time, those j…
Though it seemed to be a lie, the women (even the shy one) danced on the pulpit that night: What Mexicans made of the revolutionaries among them, 1934–1940 The most languid, untold pleasure
Inviting readers to enter the post-revolutionary Mexican world where women, long denied equality before the law, were suddenly courted by church and state, this article focuses on a group of women from the Michoacán village of Ario Santa Monica who invaded the local church and danced. Informed by oral history interviews and explorations of sensibility and embodiment, multiple versions of that dance emerge. They include the dance devised by the wo…
Business, Government, and EU Accession: Strategic Partnership and Conflict – By E.A. Iankova
As though they meant her no harm, María Enríquez remade the friends who abandoned her – their intentions, their possibilities, their worlds – inviting them (perhaps, it is true) to dance1
By using the range of tones, cadences, emotional ointments women often have possessed, this article focuses on a woman who claimed she was physically abused. It travels with her subtle emotionality, following her glances, her artistry as she summoned help, and finding it nowhere but within, remade the world with striking tenderness and grace. Keywords: danceghost timeLa PurísimaMaría EnríquezMichoacán rapto Zamora Notes 1. This article itself has…
Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920 - 1935
If the Mexican state of Michoacán is the sort of laboratory of postrevolutionary political culture that I claimed it was in my 1988 Yale dissertation, if its dependent capitalist culture was based on the hyperexploitation of women as I claimed in the second volume of my multivolume work on revolution, democracy, and longing in Mexico — a specific question hovers. That is, if women did the vast amount of work (however unseen and unpaid), what sort…
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
While Lázaro Cárdenas is without doubt Mexico’s most humane and most heralded twentieth-century president, the sources of his grandeur remain largely hidden. Historical documents of the period, include his own diaries, simply do not evoke well the man. Nor do they capture the sort of overarching transformation he sought to create in Mexico, a transformation that was deeply cultural.Ben Fallaw’s Cárdenas Compromised traces Cárdenas’s efforts to re…
Talking Back to Frida: Houses of Emotional Mestizaje
Talking Back to Frida: Houses of Emotional Mestizaje" is, in part, a historical meditation on the silencing of three women, Frida Kahlo, María Enríquez, a Mexican woman who was sexually assaulted in 1924, and me. Written in an innovative historical fashion that joins techniques drawn from fiction, journalism, and history, the article attempts to understand specific assaults on women's voices by drawing readers into the historical worlds of the pr…
Human skeletal remains from cremation urns in the National Museum of denmark
Analysis of the skeletal contents of this random collection of cremation urns provides some very interesting general observations (see Table 1, below). The remains of as many as 19 people have been identified, although fewer actually may be present (e.g., see 875 and 876). Two of these 19 are infants, ages 1 and 3, and a third may be a child of 11 years. Where sex can be identified, ten of the “adults” appear to be females, and only 5 are identif…
Skeletal studies of the people of Sicily: An update on research into human remains from archaeological contexts
Human skeletal remains, commonly at the focus of the archaeological investigations of cemeteries, recently have become of increasing importance in reconstructing the culture history of Sicily. A review of the history of osteological investigations on Sicily, including note of recent studies, demonstrates the considerable progress made in recent years and provides future researchers with indications of directions that are available to be taken. Th…
Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the de-Indianized rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient…
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
When I was a child, I danced as a child, but now that I am old, I think about salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put 1
The article, ‘When I Was a Child, I Danced as a Child, but Now that I Am Old, I Think about Salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put,’ reconstructs an incandescent moment in the history of Mexico, a moment when ordinary Mexicans dramatically transformed Mexico's future. In the mid‐1930s in the midst of President Lázaro Cárdenas's efforts to remake rural Mexico and its people, men and women trained to revere the Virgin Mar…
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary.…
Torching La Purísima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacán, 1934–1940
Archeology: The Lenape: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography . Herbert C. Kraft
Black and White and Color: Cardenismo and the Search for a Campesino Ideology
It is well known that upon emerging victorious from the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the Constitutionalists confronted a dilemma. Having defeated the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, they believed that they had won the right to construct a postrevolutionary state reflecting their interests. Yet the spectors of the popular armies were to haunt them. The new revolutionary elites were forced to determine how to create a state in th…
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
Human Skeletal Remains from Kato Zakro
Human Skeletal Remains from Kato Zakro
Skeletal studies of the people of Sicily: An update on research into human remains from archaeological contexts
Human skeletal remains, commonly at the focus of the archaeological investigations of cemeteries, recently have become of increasing importance in reconstructing the culture history of Sicily. A review of the history of osteological investigations on Sicily, including note of recent studies, demonstrates the considerable progress made in recent years and provides future researchers with indications of directions that are available to be taken. Th…
Black and White and Color: Cardenismo and the Search for a Campesino Ideology
It is well known that upon emerging victorious from the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the Constitutionalists confronted a dilemma. Having defeated the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, they believed that they had won the right to construct a postrevolutionary state reflecting their interests. Yet the spectors of the popular armies were to haunt them. The new revolutionary elites were forced to determine how to create a state in th…
Business, Government, and EU Accession: Strategic Partnership and Conflict – By E.A. Iankova
As though they meant her no harm, María Enríquez remade the friends who abandoned her – their intentions, their possibilities, their worlds – inviting them (perhaps, it is true) to dance1
By using the range of tones, cadences, emotional ointments women often have possessed, this article focuses on a woman who claimed she was physically abused. It travels with her subtle emotionality, following her glances, her artistry as she summoned help, and finding it nowhere but within, remade the world with striking tenderness and grace. Keywords: danceghost timeLa PurísimaMaría EnríquezMichoacán rapto Zamora Notes 1. This article itself has…
Human skeletal remains from cremation urns in the National Museum of denmark
Analysis of the skeletal contents of this random collection of cremation urns provides some very interesting general observations (see Table 1, below). The remains of as many as 19 people have been identified, although fewer actually may be present (e.g., see 875 and 876). Two of these 19 are infants, ages 1 and 3, and a third may be a child of 11 years. Where sex can be identified, ten of the “adults” appear to be females, and only 5 are identif…
Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the de-Indianized rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient…
When I was a child, I danced as a child, but now that I am old, I think about salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put 1
The article, ‘When I Was a Child, I Danced as a Child, but Now that I Am Old, I Think about Salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put,’ reconstructs an incandescent moment in the history of Mexico, a moment when ordinary Mexicans dramatically transformed Mexico's future. In the mid‐1930s in the midst of President Lázaro Cárdenas's efforts to remake rural Mexico and its people, men and women trained to revere the Virgin Mar…
Human Skeletal Remains from Kato Zakro
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
Black and White and Color: Cardenismo and the Search for a Campesino Ideology
It is well known that upon emerging victorious from the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the Constitutionalists confronted a dilemma. Having defeated the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, they believed that they had won the right to construct a postrevolutionary state reflecting their interests. Yet the spectors of the popular armies were to haunt them. The new revolutionary elites were forced to determine how to create a state in th…
Archeology: The Lenape: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography . Herbert C. Kraft
Torching La Purísima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacán, 1934–1940
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary.…
When I was a child, I danced as a child, but now that I am old, I think about salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put 1
The article, ‘When I Was a Child, I Danced as a Child, but Now that I Am Old, I Think about Salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put,’ reconstructs an incandescent moment in the history of Mexico, a moment when ordinary Mexicans dramatically transformed Mexico's future. In the mid‐1930s in the midst of President Lázaro Cárdenas's efforts to remake rural Mexico and its people, men and women trained to revere the Virgin Mar…
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the de-Indianized rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient…
Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
Skeletal studies of the people of Sicily: An update on research into human remains from archaeological contexts
Human skeletal remains, commonly at the focus of the archaeological investigations of cemeteries, recently have become of increasing importance in reconstructing the culture history of Sicily. A review of the history of osteological investigations on Sicily, including note of recent studies, demonstrates the considerable progress made in recent years and provides future researchers with indications of directions that are available to be taken. Th…
Human skeletal remains from cremation urns in the National Museum of denmark
Analysis of the skeletal contents of this random collection of cremation urns provides some very interesting general observations (see Table 1, below). The remains of as many as 19 people have been identified, although fewer actually may be present (e.g., see 875 and 876). Two of these 19 are infants, ages 1 and 3, and a third may be a child of 11 years. Where sex can be identified, ten of the “adults” appear to be females, and only 5 are identif…
Talking Back to Frida: Houses of Emotional Mestizaje
Talking Back to Frida: Houses of Emotional Mestizaje" is, in part, a historical meditation on the silencing of three women, Frida Kahlo, María Enríquez, a Mexican woman who was sexually assaulted in 1924, and me. Written in an innovative historical fashion that joins techniques drawn from fiction, journalism, and history, the article attempts to understand specific assaults on women's voices by drawing readers into the historical worlds of the pr…
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
While Lázaro Cárdenas is without doubt Mexico’s most humane and most heralded twentieth-century president, the sources of his grandeur remain largely hidden. Historical documents of the period, include his own diaries, simply do not evoke well the man. Nor do they capture the sort of overarching transformation he sought to create in Mexico, a transformation that was deeply cultural.Ben Fallaw’s Cárdenas Compromised traces Cárdenas’s efforts to re…
Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920 - 1935
If the Mexican state of Michoacán is the sort of laboratory of postrevolutionary political culture that I claimed it was in my 1988 Yale dissertation, if its dependent capitalist culture was based on the hyperexploitation of women as I claimed in the second volume of my multivolume work on revolution, democracy, and longing in Mexico — a specific question hovers. That is, if women did the vast amount of work (however unseen and unpaid), what sort…
As though they meant her no harm, María Enríquez remade the friends who abandoned her – their intentions, their possibilities, their worlds – inviting them (perhaps, it is true) to dance1
By using the range of tones, cadences, emotional ointments women often have possessed, this article focuses on a woman who claimed she was physically abused. It travels with her subtle emotionality, following her glances, her artistry as she summoned help, and finding it nowhere but within, remade the world with striking tenderness and grace. Keywords: danceghost timeLa PurísimaMaría EnríquezMichoacán rapto Zamora Notes 1. This article itself has…
Business, Government, and EU Accession: Strategic Partnership and Conflict – By E.A. Iankova
Though it seemed to be a lie, the women (even the shy one) danced on the pulpit that night: What Mexicans made of the revolutionaries among them, 1934–1940 The most languid, untold pleasure
Inviting readers to enter the post-revolutionary Mexican world where women, long denied equality before the law, were suddenly courted by church and state, this article focuses on a group of women from the Michoacán village of Ario Santa Monica who invaded the local church and danced. Informed by oral history interviews and explorations of sensibility and embodiment, multiple versions of that dance emerge. They include the dance devised by the wo…
Had Pilar Ternera co-written Cien Aňos de Soledad, Gabo, I’d never write you now: Toward a letter to the dead
The sadness prompted by the death of Gabriel García Márquez informs this retrospective expression of deepest gratitude, recognition of ways his literary presence accompanied my years living in Spain and Latin America. Indeed, that presence led me to lure his journalistic and fictional work into the university classes I long have taught, most particularly my seminar focusing on his exquisite One Hundred Years of Solitude. At the same time, those j…
Music, such sudden music: When Mexican women altered space in time
This fable places the Michoacán female revolutionary dancers in dialogue with the renowned Mexican poet Octavio Paz, allowing the women to reveal to him key aspects of the cultural worlds they helped devise, aspects they embodied in their illicit dance in the church. Most particularly, the fable trains Paz in Mexican female temporality, a temporality they recalibrated as they danced
You grabbed me as though you owned my body, but I’m here to say you’re wrong: Toward a letter to the Zamora sexual assailant
Developing an idiom derived from deep southern female politeness, this article calls out one of the sexual assailants whose assaults undermined the author’s career path as a historian of the Mexican revolution, its counter-revolution, of Mexican gender, ethnicity, race, and poverty. Behaving not as though the assailant – and those people and institutions supporting sexual assault – deserve to know her background, the extent of her work in Mexico …
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