The Urban Circus
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The Urban Circus

Travels with Mexico's Malabaristas

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The Urban Circus

Travels with Mexico's Malabaristas

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The story opens in Chihuahua, North Mexico, with a chance meeting with a group of itinerant Mexican street performers. Entranced by their stories and free-roaming lifestyle, author Catriona Rainsford decides to go with them on what becomes a two-year, hand-to-mouth journey across Mexico, learning to live off nothing more than a few performance skills, initiative and the kindness of strangers.

Compelling, humorous, sometimes violent, and full of wonderful descriptions of life on the road, this is also a discussion of the morality of hand-to-mouth travel. Packed with stories of the characters she meets on the Mexican streets, the book offers an insight into the day-to-day experiences of Mexico's urban poor. Above all, it is a tale of the struggle of Mexico's youth to transcend the country's current climate of corruption and violence and create a new identity for themselves, inspired by aspects of Mexico's surviving indigenous cultures and the desire to make people smile in the most unprepossessing of places.

'They were travelling malabaristas - itinerant circus performers who wandered the streets of Mexico, hitchhiking from town to town and surviving by whatever means they could. They saw themselves as a modern take on the ancient tradition of the wandering entertainer, taking their art to the people, and taking whatever the people were prepared to give them to help them on their way.'

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Publisher
Bradt Travel Guides
Year
2013
ISBN
9781841627786
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. About the Author
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Quotations
  5. Map
  6. 1. Millionaires
  7. 2. The Disappeared
  8. 3. Aluminium Flowers
  9. 4. The Patron Saint of Lost Causes
  10. 5. Señor Talón
  11. 6. The Five Rules of Master
  12. 7. The Wheel of Fortune
  13. 8. The Missing Half
  14. 9. Wirikuta
  15. 10. Playing the SemĂĄforos
  16. 11. La Migra
  17. 12. Deportation
  18. 13. Borderlands
  19. 14. Saint Death and the Ball Game
  20. 15. La Chaparrita
  21. 16. Topes
  22. 17. Welcome to Chihuahua
  23. 18. The Silent Zone
  24. 19. The Letter Z
  25. 20. A Delicate Equilibrium
  26. 21. The Layered City
  27. 22. Three Mornings
  28. 23. Barbed Wire and Scissors
  29. 24. The Sacred Mountain
  30. 25. The People Who Love You
  31. 26. Kinich’s Message
  32. Copyright Page