
Exits from the Labyrinth
Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space
Claudio Lomnitz-Adler(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 5. January 1993
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-520-07788-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07788-1 (9780520077881)
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04/2023
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€61.49
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Person
Claudio Lomnitz-Adler is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Tepoztlan: Politics, Culture, and Anthropology, a revised English language version of his earlier Evolucion de un socieded rural (1982), is soon to be published.