Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village - Softcover

Friedrich, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226264815 ISBN 13: 9780226264813

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1977

Synopsis

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village deals with a Tarįscan Indian village in southwestern Mexico which, between 1920 and 1926, played a precedent-setting role in agrarian reform. As he describes forty years in the history of this small pueblo, Paul Friedrich raises general questions about local politics and agrarian reform that are basic to our understanding of radical change in peasant societies around the world. Of particular interest is his detailed study of the colorful, violent, and psychologically complex leader, Primo Tapia, whose biography bears on the theoretical issues of the "political middleman" and the relation between individual motivation and socioeconomic change. Friedrich's evidence includes massive interviewing, personal letters, observations as an anthropological participant (e.g., in fiesta ritual), analysis of the politics and other village culture during 1955-56, comparison with other Tarįscan villages, historical and prehistoric background materials, and research in legal and government agrarian archives.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0226264815
• ISBN 13: 9780226264813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176