Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico
Demonstrates how the annual fiesta cycle reflects political dependency of local communities on the nation-state, helps maintain formal authority, and perpetuates behavioral norms and social values.
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Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico
Demonstrates how the annual fiesta cycle reflects political dependency of local communities on the nation-state, helps maintain formal authority, and perpetuates behavioral norms and social values.
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Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico

Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico

by Stanley Brandes
Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico

Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico

by Stanley Brandes

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Overview

Demonstrates how the annual fiesta cycle reflects political dependency of local communities on the nation-state, helps maintain formal authority, and perpetuates behavioral norms and social values.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812212532
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 01/01/1988
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

One. Studying Fiestas and Social Control
Two. The Social Context of Tzintzuntzan Fiestas
Three. Fiesta Organization
Four. Contract and Exchange
Five. Tourism and the State
Six. Pyrotechnics and Politics
Seven. Social Control through Dance
Eight. A Christmas Morality Play
Nine. Fiestas and the Social Order

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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