- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
-
Part One Anthropology -
1 American Anthropologists and American Society -
2 Kroeber Revisited -
3 Remarks on The People of Puerto Rico -
4 On Fieldwork and Theory -
5 Anthropology among the Powers -
Part Two Connections -
6 Building the Nation -
7 The Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam -
8 Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society -
9 The Virgin of Guadalupe -
10 Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java -
11 The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community -
12 Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies -
13 Ethnicity and Nationhood -
Part Three Peasants -
14 Types of Latin American Peasantry -
15 Specific Aspects of Plantation Systems in the New World -
16 Peasants and Revolution -
17 Phases of Rural Protest in Latin America -
18 Is the “Peasantry” a Class? -
19 On Peasant Rent -
20 The Second Serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America -
21 Peasant Nationalism in an Alpine Valley -
Part Four Concepts -
22 Culture -
23 Inventing Society -
24 The Mills of Inequality -
25 Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World -
26 Ideas and Power -
27 Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions -
28 Perilous Ideas - References
- Index
The Virgin of Guadalupe
The Virgin of Guadalupe
A Mexican National Symbol
- Chapter:
- (p.139) 9 The Virgin of Guadalupe
- Source:
- Pathways of Power
- Author(s):
Eric R. Wolf
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter attempts to unravel the different strands and levels of motivation and interest that were historically brought together into a powerful collective representation. It represents an effort to analyze a national master symbol as a manifold of heterogeneous referents drawn from various traditions of ethnicity, class, and region and combined into a multifunctional unity through intersecting signs. A symbol is encountered that seems to enshrine the major hopes and aspirations of an entire society. The Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint, represents such a master symbol. Cultural forms provide the cultural idiom of behavior and ideal representations through which different groups in a society can pursue and manipulate their different fates within a coordinated framework. The Guadalupe symbol links together family, politics, and religion; colonial past and independent present; Indian and Mexican. It reflects the salient social relationships of Mexican life and embodies the emotions they generate.
Keywords: Virgin of Guadalupe, social relationships, national master symbol, cultural forms, Mexican life
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
-
Part One Anthropology -
1 American Anthropologists and American Society -
2 Kroeber Revisited -
3 Remarks on The People of Puerto Rico -
4 On Fieldwork and Theory -
5 Anthropology among the Powers -
Part Two Connections -
6 Building the Nation -
7 The Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam -
8 Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society -
9 The Virgin of Guadalupe -
10 Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java -
11 The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community -
12 Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies -
13 Ethnicity and Nationhood -
Part Three Peasants -
14 Types of Latin American Peasantry -
15 Specific Aspects of Plantation Systems in the New World -
16 Peasants and Revolution -
17 Phases of Rural Protest in Latin America -
18 Is the “Peasantry” a Class? -
19 On Peasant Rent -
20 The Second Serfdom in Eastern Europe and Latin America -
21 Peasant Nationalism in an Alpine Valley -
Part Four Concepts -
22 Culture -
23 Inventing Society -
24 The Mills of Inequality -
25 Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World -
26 Ideas and Power -
27 Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions -
28 Perilous Ideas - References
- Index
