Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico Contributor(s): Alcántara, Cynthia Hewitt de (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138743755 ISBN-13: 9781138743755 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Social History - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rural History |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 dependency paradigm, to the historical structuralism of the 1970s. This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico, and discusses in stimulating terms the theoretical and empirical difficulties of the profession of anthropology itself. |