The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000

by Hugo G. Nutini

Book Overview

The Mexican aristocracy today is simultaneously an anachronism and a testimony to the persistence of social institutions. Shut out from political power by the democratization movements of the twentieth century, stripped of the basis of its great wealth by land reforms in the 1930s, the aristocracy nonetheless maintains a strong sense of group identity through the deeply held belief that their ancestors were the architects and rulers of Mexico for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292719515
• ISBN13: 9780292719514
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"