Setting the Virgin on Fire Lï¿½zaro Cï¿½rdenas, Michoacï¿½n Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution

Name: Setting the Virgin on Fire Lï¿½zaro Cï¿½rdenas, Michoacï¿½n Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
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ISBN: 9780520084193

ISBN-10: 0520084195

ISBN-13: 9780520084193

Edition: 1996

Authors: Marjorie Becker

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In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Laacute;zaro Caacute;rdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacaacute;n. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Caacute;rdenas to develop a…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/4/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 194
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Official History and the Myth of Secular Redemption



A Culture of Purity and Redemption



From the Margins of Purity to the Margins of Danger



Call Out a Posse, Gather Up Their Music, Teach Them to Sing: The Reinvention of the Indian in Postrevolutionary Michoacan



Revolutionary Lessons, I: Purity up in Smoke



Revolutionary Lessons, II: The Compensations of Indianism



Some Lessons of Their Own



An End to the Innocence


Conclusion: The Redemption of the Mexican Revolution


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Index