Exits from the Labyrinth

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 a new theoretical framework for the study of national and regional cultures. With an analysis of culture and ideology in internally differentiated regional spaces - in this case Morelos and the Huasteca in Mexico - this study links ethnographic and historical research to two specific aspects of Mexican national ideology and culture: the history of legitimacy and charisma in Mexican politics, and the relationship between the national community and racial ideology.

ISBN 0520077881   Pages 396 ISBN13 9780520077881 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of California Press   Weight (grammes) 771 Imprint University of California Press   Published in Berkerley Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 05 Jan 1993   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress F1234.L855   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 320.540972   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction: The Project and the Labyrinth		1
Pt. 1		Regional Culture
1		Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture		17
2		Introduction to the Regional Ethnography of Morelos and the Huasteca		43
Sect. 1		Regional Culture in Morelos
3		Cultural Hegemony in Morelos: General Background		61
4		The Cultural Region: A Problematization from the Core		82
5		Central Places and Regional Cultural Organization		107
6		Rural Cultures in Morelos: Transformations of Peasant Class Culture		121
7		The Localist Ideology of a Vulnerable Elite		133
8		Peasant Localism as "Regionalism": Peasant and State in Morelos		143
Sect. 2		Regional Culture in the Huasteca Potosina
9		The Huasteca as a Hegemonic Region		153
10		Class Culture and Intimate Cultures of the Huasteca		169
11		Ranchero Localist Ideology		188
12		Indian Localism		205
13		Local Intelligentsia and the Flow of Regional Symbols in Localist Ideologies		221
14		Epilogue		242
Pt. 2		National Culture
15		Theory and Politics		247
16		Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism		261
17		Regional Cultures and the Culture of the State		282
18		Spatial Analysis and National Culture		311
		Notes		315
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