Setting the Virgin on Fire - Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants, Redemption of Mexican

Informationen zum Autor Marjorie Becker is Professor of History and English at the University of Southern California. Klappentext "A major work in the field of Mexican revolutionary and gender studies. Becker is an indefatigable fieldworker; the array and richness of her archival and oral sources is simply astonishing."-Gilbert M. Joseph! author of Revolution from Without Zusammenfassung 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 Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. 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 Cárdenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Becker brilliantly combines concerns with culture and power and a deep historical empathy to bring to life the men and women of her story. She shows how Mexico's government today owes much of its subtlety to the peasants of Michoacán. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF MAPS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Introduction: Official History and the Myth of Secular Redemption 2. A Culture of Purity and Redemption 3. From the Margins of Purity to the Margins of Danger 4. Call Out a Posse! Gather Up Their Music! Teach Them to Sing: The Reinvention of the Indian in Postrevolutionary Michoacan 5. Revolutionary Lessons! I: Purity up in Smoke 6. Revolutionary Lessons! II: The Compensations of Indianism 7. Some Lessons of Their Own 8. An End to the Innocence Conclusion: The Redemption of the Mexican Revolution SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ...

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Becker, Becker Marjorie
• Assisted by: Marjorie Becker (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.1996
• EAN: 9780520084193
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08419-3
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Social groups, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, History of the Americas, Revolutionary groups and movements, Social groups, communities and identities, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions