Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

William H. Beezley (Anthology Editor) , Cheryl E. Martin (Anthology Editor) , William E. French (Anthology Editor)
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Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

William H. Beezley (Anthology Editor) , Cheryl E. Martin (Anthology Editor) , William E. French (Anthology Editor)
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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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Constructing Consent, Inciting Conflict
Chapter 2 Giants and Gypsies: Corpus Christi in Colonial Mexico City
Chapter 3 Lewd Songs and Dances from the Streets of Eighteenth-Century New Spain
Chapter 4 The Working Poor and the Eighteenth-Century Colonial State: Gender, Public Order, and Work Discipline
Chapter 5 A World of Images: Cult, Ritual, and Society in Colonial Mexico City
Chapter 6 Public Celebrations, Popular Culture, and labor Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Chihuahua
Chapter 7 Policia y Buen Gobierno: Municipal Efforts to Regulate Public Behavior, 1821–1857
Chapter 8 Streetwise History: The Paseo de la Reforma and the Porfirian State, 1876–1910
Chapter 9 Proletarians, Politicos, and Patriarchs: The Use and Abuse of Cultural Customs in the Early Industrialization of Mexico City, 1880–1910
Chapter 10 The Porfirian Smart Set Anticipates Thorstein Veblen in Guadalajara
Chapter 11 Progreso Forzado: Workers and the Inculcation of the Capitalist Work Ethic in the Parral Mining District
Chapter 12 The Construction of the Patriotic Festival in Tecamachalco, Puebla, 1900–1946
Chapter 13 Popular Reactions to the Educational Reforms of Cardenismo
Chapter 14 Burning Saints, Molding Minds: Iconoclasm, Civic Ritual, and the Failed Cultural Revolution
Chapter 15 Misiones Culturales, Teatro Conasupo, and Teatro Comunidad: the Evolution of Rural Theater
Chapter 16 The Ceremonial and Political Roles of Village Bands, 1846–1974
Chapter 17 Conclusion: The State as Vampire-Hegemonic Projects, Public Ritual, and Popular Culture in Mexico, 1600–1990

Product details

Published 01 May 1994
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 374
ISBN 9798216229858
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series Latin American Silhouettes
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

WB
Anthology Editor

William H. Beezley

William H. Beezley received the Ohtli medal from t…

CM
Anthology Editor

Cheryl E. Martin

WF
Anthology Editor

William E. French

Reviews

  • Offers specialists and students the best kind of history-readings that are both entertaining and enlightening, fun and full of information.

    The Historian

  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance is an auspicious collection of essays. . . . The coverage is most impressive, ranging from the sixteenth century to modern times, and assessing every level of political life. With its deeply informed introduction, the book offers . . . a feast of fascinating material, interpreted with seriousness and grace.

    R. Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

  • This entertaining collection fully does justice to the complex relationship among ritual, culture, and politics in Mexico. . . . Skillful references to theoretical and comparative studies from a variety of disciplines add depth and sophistication.

    Louisa Schell Hoberman, University of Texas, Austin

  • This collection of documents is filled with new insights into the process of acculturation, religious transformation, and the sixteenth-century history of western Mexico.

    Colonial Latin American Historical Review

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