Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes) by William H. Beezley


Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Title : Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
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ISBN : 0842024174
ISBN-10 : 9780842024174
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : -
Publication : First published January 1, 1994

This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a need that becomes ever more pressing, this volume provides fresh insights.

Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes) Reviews

  • Illona

    This book has a wealth of information, in-depth, and covers cultural aspects not covered in other texts on the same topic. (374 pages)

    Table of Contents:
    Introduction : constructing consent, inciting conflict
    Giants and gypsies : Corpus Christi in colonial Mexico City / L.A. Curcio-Nagy
    Lewd songs and dances from the streets of Eighteenth-century new Spain / S.R. Ayala
    The working poor and the Eighteenth-century colonial state : gender, public order, and work discipline / S. Deans-Smith
    A world of images : cult, ritual, and society in colonial Mexico City / C.G. Ayluardo
    Public celebrations, popular culture, and labor discipline in Eighteenth-century Chihuahua / C.E. Martin
    Policia y Buen Gobierno : municipal efforts to regulate public behavior, 1821-1857 / A. Staples
    Streetwise history : the Paeso de la reforma and the Porfirian State, 1876-1910 / B.A. Tenenbaum
    Proletarians, politicos, and patriarchs : the use and abuse of cultural customs in the early industrialization of Mexico City, 1880-1910 / T. Morgan
    The Porfirian smart set anticipates Thorstein Veblen in Guadalajara / W.H. Beezley
    Progreso Forzado : workers and the inculcation of the capitalist work ethic in the Parral mining district / W.E. French
    The construction of the Patriotic Festival in Tecamachalco, Puebla, 1900-1946 / M.K. Vaughan
    Popular reactions to the educational reforms of Cardenismo / E. Loyo
    Burning saints, molding minds : iconoclasm, civic ritual, and the failed cultural revolution / A.A. Bantjes
    Misiones culturales, teatro conasupo, and teatro comunidad : the evolution of rural theater / D.H. Frischmann
    The ceremonial and political roles of village bands, 1846-1974 / G.P.C. Thomson
    Conclusion : the state as vampire-hegemonic projects, public ritual, and popular culture in Mexico, 1600-1990.