Exits from the Labyrinth : Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space / Claudio Lomnitz-Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Mexico--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Cultural pluralism--Mexico--History--20th century.

Cultural pluralism.

Ethnicity--Mexico--History--20th century.

Ethnicity.

Mexico--Civilization--20th century.

Mexico.

Morelos (Mexico : State)--Civilization.

Morelos (Mexico : State).

Huasteca Region (Mexico)--Civilization.

Huasteca Region (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 386 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideology constructs an entirely new theoretical framework for the study of national and regional cultures everywhere.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Project and the Labyrinth

1. Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture

2. Introduction to the Regional Ethnography of Morelos and the Huasteca

3. Cultural Hegemony in Morelos: General Background

4. The Cultural Region: A Problematization from the Core

5. Central Places and Regional Cultural Organization

6. Rural Cultures in Morelos: Transformations of Peasant Class Culture

7. The Localist Ideology of a Vulnerable Elite

8. Peasant Localism as "Regionalism": Peasant and State in Morelos

9. The Huasteca as a Hegemonic Region

10. Class Culture and Intimate Cultures of the Huasteca

11. Ranchero Localist Ideology

12. Indian Localism

13. Local Intelligentsia and the Flow of Regional Symbols in Localist Ideologies

14. Epilogue

15. Theory and Politics

16. Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism

17. Regional Cultures and the Culture of the State

18. Spatial Analysis and National Culture

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520912472

0520912470

9780585130040

0585130043

OCLC:

1149522041