1st Edition
Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico
By Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Copyright 1984
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the... Read more
Preface; Introduction; 1. Particularism, Marxism and Functionalist in Mexican Anthropology, 1920-50 2. A Dialogue on Ethnic Conflict: Indigenismo and Functionalism, 1950-70 3. Cultural Ecology, Marxism and the Development of a Theory of the Peasantry, 1950-70 4. Anthropology and the Dependency Paradigm in Mexico, 1960-75 5. Historical Structuralism and the Fate of the Peasantry, 1970-80 6. Conclusions; Notes; Index
Biography
Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
