Romance of Democracy
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anthropology
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compliant defiance
contemporary mexico
culture
democracy
emancipation
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ethnographers
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ethnography
fieldwork
historians
human condition
ideological
insider perspective
mexican history
mexican society
mexicans
mexico
mexico city
modern history
national democracy
nonfiction
political
political change
political history
popular politics
social change
social science
social studies
subjugation
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780520235281
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process he provides a new perspective on many issues affecting Mexicans countrywide.
Matthew C. Gutmann is the Stanley J. Bernstein Associate Professor of the Social Sciences-International Affairs at Brown University, where he teaches cultural anthropology, ethnic studies, and Latin American studies. His first book, The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City, was published by California in 1996.
