The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000 - Couverture rigide

Nutini, Hugo G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0292701616 ISBN 13 : 9780292701618

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2004

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Book by Nutini Hugo G

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"This book is unique. There is simply no other extensive treatise on the Mexican aristocracy. . . . The scholarship is sound. Nutini knows Mexico better than any anthropologist alive." -- Henry R. Selby, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin "Providing ample details about the Mexican aristocracy, Nutini raises intriguing questions about the nature of social class by highlighting the aristocracy's shifting place within Mexico's superordinate social stratum." -- Journal of Anthropological Research The Mexican aristocracy today is simultaneously an anachronism and a testimony to the persistence of social institutions. Shut out from political power by the democratization movements of the twentieth century, stripped of the basis of its great wealth by land reforms in the 1930s, the aristocracy nonetheless maintains a strong sense of group identity through the deeply held belief that their ancestors were the architects and rulers of Mexico for nearly four hundred years. This expressive ethnography describes the transformation of the Mexican aristocracy from the onset of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when the aristocracy was unquestionably Mexico's highest-ranking social class, until the end of the twentieth century, when it had almost ceased to function as a superordinate social group. Drawing on extensive interviews with group members, Nutini maps out the expressive aspects of aristocratic culture in such areas as perceptions of class and race, city and country living, education and professional occupations, political participation, religion, kinship, marriage and divorce, and social ranking. His findings explain why social elites persist even when theyhave lost their status as ruling and political classes and also illuminate the relationship between the aristocracy and Mexico's new political and economic plutocracy.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0292701616
• ISBN 13: 9780292701618
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 398