The Village Is Like a Wheel : Rethinking Cargos, Family, and Ethnicity in Highland Mexico /

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The author argues for a major shift in the prevailing approach to the study of rural highland peoples in Mexico. Using ethnographic material, the author builds a convincing case that many of the discipline's usual topics and approaches distract anthropologists from what is truly important to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magazine, Roger, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban-rural migration.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Rural conditions.
Indians of Mexico > Social conditions.
Indians of Mexico > Economic conditions.
Indians of Mexico.
Festivals.
Economic history.
Cargo cults.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cargo cults > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc.
Festivals > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc.
Social change > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc.
Urban-rural migration > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc.
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc > Economic conditions.
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc > Social conditions.
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc > History.
Mexico > Tepetlaoxtoc.
Tepetlaoxtoc (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
Tepetlaoxtoc (Mexico) > Rural conditions.
Tepetlaoxtoc (Mexico) > Social conditions.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Interdependence and the Production of Active Subjectivity
  • The Texcoco Region and the Village of Tepetlaoxtoc
  • "La fiesta se hace entre todos" : Rethinking Fiestas and Cargos
  • Ayuda Among and Within Families
  • Problems with "Ethnicity" and "Modernization"
  • Bridging the Gap.

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