Mexican Aristocracy An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000

Name: Mexican Aristocracy An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000
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ISBN: 9780292701618

ISBN-10: 0292701616

ISBN-13: 9780292701618

Edition: 2004

Authors: Hugo G. Nutini

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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' highest-ranking social class, until…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 398
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

HUGO G. NUTINI (1929–2013) was University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He authored numerous articles and books on central Mexico, including The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography, 1910–2000; Social Stratification and Mobility in Central Veracruz; and Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500–2000 (with B. L. Isaac).



Preface


Introduction



Demographic Composition and Contextual Definition of the Aristocracy



The Relationship of Class and Ethnicity: Somatic and Racial Considerations



The Realization of Expression in the Ethnographic Context



The Organization of Urban Living: Settlement, Residence, and the Household



Economy, Material Culture, and Political Participation



Religion: Ideology, Worship, and the Ritual-Ceremonial Complex



Social Organization: The Configuration and Interrelationship of Kinship Units and Institutions



Internal Stratification and Organization of the Group


Conclusions


Notes


Glossaries


Bibliography