1) Jennifer Gonzalez writes in Rhetoric of the Object that, "The construction of a 'museum of the self' or 'autotopography' which is designed to act as a self-persuasive text on an intimate scale can be seen to parallel common forms of museum display which attempt to construct a visual rhetoric of objects with a larger, public discourse" (p. 89). Is it possible to use pictures of yourself on an alter as well as a mirror? Alters are an "autotopography" according to Gonzalez, so is it possible to create an alter that shows how much one has changed?
2) In Laura E. Perez's chapter "Altar, Alter", she writes "...the sensibility of feminist Chicana art that reclaims cultural practices in the face of their historic social devaluation in Eurocentric culture that critiques the patriarchal limitations in Mexican and Mexican American cultures" (p. 99). How do altars challenge and critique Eurocentric patriarchy? How do they revolutionize feminism?
3) In "Altar, Alter", Perez writes "Alter building and tending allow for a cultivation of memory that in itself is political and that in turn can generate wider social and political effect" (p. 123). When we watched the documentary La Ofrenda, and as mentioned in "Altar, Alter", a gay man built an altar in support of his partner and friends who died of AIDs. When building altars, are they always going to have some political aspect to them, like this one or the ones, Perez mentioned as showing domestic violence?
2) In Laura E. Perez's chapter "Altar, Alter", she writes "...the sensibility of feminist Chicana art that reclaims cultural practices in the face of their historic social devaluation in Eurocentric culture that critiques the patriarchal limitations in Mexican and Mexican American cultures" (p. 99). How do altars challenge and critique Eurocentric patriarchy? How do they revolutionize feminism?
3) In "Altar, Alter", Perez writes "Alter building and tending allow for a cultivation of memory that in itself is political and that in turn can generate wider social and political effect" (p. 123). When we watched the documentary La Ofrenda, and as mentioned in "Altar, Alter", a gay man built an altar in support of his partner and friends who died of AIDs. When building altars, are they always going to have some political aspect to them, like this one or the ones, Perez mentioned as showing domestic violence?
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