Olga Najera-Ramirez

Biographic Data

ID3618282
NAMEOlga Najera-Ramirez
GIVEN NAMESOlga
FAMILY NAMENajera-Ramirez
SIGNATURENÁJERA-RAMÍREZ O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation

    Olga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2024

    Manuel R. Cuellar's book is a welcome addition to the scholarly study of Mexican folklórico dance, a field of study that had long been ignored as a legitimate topic worthy of serious attention. It was not until the late 1980s that scholarly publications (mostly in Spanish) emerged to provide more insight into the complex history and significance of this dance form in Mexico and in the United States.The depth of Cuellar's research is impressive. D…

  • Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song

    Open AccessOlga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezCHAPTERChicana Feminisms2020

  • Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

    Séverine Carrausse, Felicia Hughes-Freeland et al.BOOKDancing Cultures2012

  • Encaminándonos: Américo Paredes as a Guiding Force in Transcending Borders

    Olga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2012Cited by: 1References: 12

    Research Article| January 01 2012 Encaminándonos: Américo Paredes as a Guiding Force in Transcending Borders Olga Nájera-Ramírez Olga Nájera-Ramírez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2012) 125 (495): 69–90. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.125.495.0069 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Olga Nájera-Ramírez; Encaminándonos: Américo Paredes as a Guiding Fo…

  • Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader

    Olga Najera Ramirez, Gabriela F Arredondo et al.BOOKChicana Feminisms2003

    In her groundbreaking anthology, Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras, Gloria Anzaldúa organized a collection of writings by women of color that reflect what she calls ''our fragmented and interrupted dialogue which is said to be discontinued and incomplete discourse'' and asked readers to participate ''in the making of meaning . . .

  • Of Fieldwork, Folklore, and Festival: Personal Encounters

    Olga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1999Cited by: 4References: 4

    Drawing on folklorist Américo Paredes's insights on the ethnographic encounter, this article examines the role of personal experience in the fieldwork process. In particular, I provide a personal account of how my identity shaped my interactions in the field and how these ethnographic encounters in turn shaped my approach to, and understanding of, a specific festival

  • Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States:Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States

    Open AccessOlga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1998

  • Engendering Nationalism: Identity, Discourse, and the Mexican Charro

    Olga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-RamirezARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1994Cited by: 13

    I argue that the charro, or Mexican cowboy, operates as a master symbol of lo mexicano on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. By tracing the evolution of the charro as a product of various social technologies, such as cinema, institutionalized discourses, and practices of daily life, I analyze how notions of gender, nation, and class intersect in el charro. In so doing, I consider questions of agency, authority, ideology, and process in cultura…

  • Southern Arizona Folk Arts

    Open AccessOlga Nájera‐ramírez, Olga Najera-Ramirez et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1990