Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico (Routledge Library Editions: Rural History) - Softcover

Alcántara, Cynthia Hewitt De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138743755 ISBN 13: 9781138743755

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138743755
• ISBN 13: 9781138743755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240