Néstor García Canclini

(Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005 2nd edition)

about the author- wiki:

Néstor García Canclini (born 1939) is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist, known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity." He currently works at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and is the director of its programme of studies in urban culture. His books include Hybrid Cultures, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1995 and recipient of the first Ibero-American Book Award for the best book about Latin America chosen by the Latin American Association, and Consumers and Citizens, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, in 2001. Canclini also sits on the Editorial Collective of the academic journal Public Culture."

about the book - amazon:
"When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade. Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong."

download the full book here (courtesy of aargh): http://www.mediafire.com/?mn2ytdaccjm

another book of his you can download from aargh:
La Producción Simbólica- teoría y método en sociología del arte - "desarrollo del estudio sociológico de la producción artística a partir de los movimientos de los años 60 en América Latin" link: http://www.mediafire.com/?nni2wymwcow

one last book that looks good by him: Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts (Univ. of Minnesota, 2001): http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Citizens-Globalization-Multicultural-Conflicts/dp/0816629870/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3

amazon:

"In Consumers and Citizens, Nestor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship.

García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, García Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions."

amazon list of his other books: http://www.amazon.com/N%C3%A9stor-Garc%C3%ADa-Canclini/e/B001HMLMTS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1274809892&sr=1-3