Exits from the Labyrinth

Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space

Claudio Lomnitz-Adler

• Editorial: University of California Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520912472
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Sozialwissenschaften
• Categoría: Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie

Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideology constructs an entirely new theoretical framework for the study of national and regional cultures everywhere. With an analysis of culture and ideology in internally differentiated regional spaces—in this case Morelos and the Huasteca in Mexico— Exits from the Labyrinth links rich ethnographic and historical research to two specific aspects of Mexican national ideology and culture: the history of legitimacy and charisma in Mexican politics, and the relationship between the national community and racial ideology.

Índice

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Project and the Labyrinth
• Part 1: Regional Culture
• 1. Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture
• 2. Introduction to the Regional Ethnography of Morelos and the Huasteca
• Section 1: Regional Culture in Morelos
• 3. Cultural Hegemony in Morelos: General Background
• 4. The Cultural Region: A Problematization from the Core
• 5. Central Places and Regional Cultural Organization
• 6. Rural Cultures in Morelos: Transformations of Peasant Class Culture
• 7. The Localist Ideology of a Vulnerable Elite
• 8. Peasant Localism as "Regionalism": Peasant and State in Morelos
• Section 2: Regional Culture in the Huasteca Potosina
• 9. The Huasteca as a Hegemonic Region
• 10. Class Culture and Intimate Cultures of the Huasteca
• 11. Ranchero Localist Ideology
• 12. Indian Localism
• 13. Local Intelligentsia and the Flow of Regional Symbols in Localist Ideologies
• 14. Epilogue
• Part 2: National Culture
• 15. Theory and Politics
• 16. Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism
• 17. Regional Cultures and the Culture of the State
• 18. Spatial Analysis and National Culture
• Notes
• References
• Index