Los retos culturales de México. Lourdes Arizpe editora por Sylvia Spitta, Hemispheric Institute; Spitta, Sylvia journal, revista Americas, Américas, Américas Latin America, Latinoamérica, América Latina North America, Norteamérica Mexico, México ENG: Los retos culturales de México brings together twenty two scholars—mostly anthropologists associated with the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and the ENAH (Escuela Nacional de Antropología), but also specialists in political science, communications, history and geography, comparative literature, performance studies, sociology, and journalism—to think through the impact that the migratory circuit (of Mexicans to the US and Central Americans to Mexico) and new mass media (particularly the internet) are having on Mexican identity and culture. An attempt to counter the all too easy and pessimist Latin American tendency to collapse modernization with homogenization or Americanization, Los retos’ premise is that Mexico, despite being so far from God and so close to the US, is a “megacultural” nation with a resilient and vibrant culture. An exporter as much as an importer of cultures, Mexico, according to Arizpe, is not a mosaic but a “river-rainbow” where different cultural currents continuously interweave creating different patterns. Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, New York University 2005-05-01 DCMI: Text Hemi: Text text/html http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/journal/2_1/spitta.html eng http://hemi.nyu.edu/rights.html public