Vizualita národní identity v Mexiku:












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            * Magdalena Koháková Haakenstad
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            The Visuality of National Identity in Mexico: A Reflection of Collective Memory or of Disc


            Abstrakt
            During the last two decades, some sections of the academic world have shown doubts concern

            y of the modernisation paradigm in nationalism studies in general, as well as of the appli
            “classic modernist” theories of nationalism for the analysis of nationhood outside of West
            the suggested new approaches, which seem to be particularly fruitful in the case of Mexica

            is the investigation of nationhood through its representations in visual language. Whereas
            written forms of language were a key aspect in the shaping of the identit y of Western and

            nations, visual language articulated in the public space (i.e. through murals), with its c
            symbols and semiotic references, played a crucial role during the process of the homogeniz
            masses, especially at the beginning of the 20th century. This period was essential for the

            the “vocabulary” and the content of Mexican national identity. Although the muralist movem
            repressed for several decades (the 1950s–1980s), since the 1990s, public art has once agai
            and has again become an important agent in the negotiation and the articulation of nationa

            throughout Mexico. This paper analyses the role of visual communication in the process of 
            and of the shaping of specific versions of national identity, and that in the historical p
            present. I build on the long-term field research I carried out in Mexico during the past t

            study of nationalism theories and of national identity, and on the methodology of visual a
            anthropology.


            Klíčová slova
            Mexican nationalism; public art; muralism; identity negotiation; visual anthropology


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