Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space
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. With an analysis of culture and ideology in internally differentiated regional...
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"One of the most original and comprehensive treatments of the topic of Mexican nationalism that exists. . . . No book combines the theoretical breadth and the empirical depth of this one."—Henry A. Selby, University of Texas, Austin"Rich, detailed, and sophisticated, the analyses of the Huasteca and especially the Morelos are at once excellent introductions to the regions, commentaries on existing ethnography in them, and advances in ethnographic analysis."—William Roseberry, New School for Social Research
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Project and the Labyrinth1Pt. 1Regional Culture1Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture172Introduction to the Regional Ethnography of Morelos and the Huasteca43Sect. 1Regional Culture in Morelos3Cultural Hegemony in Morelos: General Background614The Cultural Region: A Problematization from the Core825Central Places and Regional Cultural Organization1076Rural Cultures in Morelos: Transformations of Peasant Class Culture1217The Localist Ideology of a Vulnerable Elite1338Peasant Localism as "Regionalism": Peasant and State in Morelos143Sect. 2Regional Culture in the Huasteca Potosina9The Huasteca as a Hegemonic Region15310Class Culture and Intimate Cultures of the Huasteca16911Ranchero Localist Ideology18812Indian Localism20513Local Intelligentsia and the Flow of Regional Symbols in Localist Ideologies22114Epilogue242Pt. 2National Culture15Theory and Politics24716Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism26117Regional Cultures and the Culture of the State28218Spatial Analysis and National Culture311Notes315References353Index369
