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Demonstrates how the annual fiesta cycle reflects political dependency of local communities on the nation-state, helps maintain formal authority, and perpetuates behavioral norms and social values.

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title:Power and Persuasion : Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico
author:Brandes, Stanley H.
publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
isbn10 | asin:0812212533
print isbn13:9780812212532
ebook isbn13:9780585312712
language:English
subjectFestivals--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan, Social control--Case studies, Tzintzuntzan (Mexico)--Social life and customs, Tarasco Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan--Social life and customs.
publication date:1988
lcc:GT4814.T95B7 1988eb
ddc:394.2/6972/37
subject:Festivals--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan, Social control--Case studies, Tzintzuntzan (Mexico)--Social life and customs, Tarasco Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan--Social life and customs.
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Power and Persuasion
Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico
Stanley Brandes
Page iv Copyright 1988 by the University of Pennsylvania Press ALL RIGHTS - photo 2
Page iv
Copyright 1988 by the University of Pennsylvania Press
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brandes, Stanley H.
Power and persuasion.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. FestivalsMexicoTzintzuntzan. 2. Social
controlCase studies. 3. Tzintzuntzan (Mexico)
Social life and customs. 4. Tarasco IndiansSocial
life and customs. 5. Indians of MexicoSocial life
and customs. I. Title.
GT4814.T95B7 1988 394.2'6972'37 87-19205
ISBN 0-8122-8077-6
ISBN 0-8122-1253-3 (pbk.)
Portions of this work originally appeared in the Journal of Latin American Lore, 5(1979):2543, and 7(1981): 171190, and are reprinted with the permission of the Regents of the University of California for the Latin American Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Photographs nos. 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, and 11 are courtesy of George M. Foster.
Second paperback printing 1990
Page v
To Nina and Naomi
Picture 3
... it is in spiritual ways that social pressure exercises itself....
Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Chapter 7
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1
Studying Fiestas and Social Control
1
2
The Social Context of Tzintzuntzan Fiestas
20
3
Fiesta Organization
40
4
Contract and Exchange
59
5
Tourism and the State
88
6
Pyrotechnics and Politics
110
7
Social Control through Dance
127
8
A Christmas Morality Play
146
9
Fiestas and the Social Order
167
Glossary
187
Bibliography
189
Index
203

Page ix
Illustrations
FIGURES
1. Fiesta Commerce in the Atrium
26
2. A Penitente de Grillo with Cirineos
64
3. A Penitente de Cruz with Cirineos
65
4. Crucifixes in Good Friday Procession
73
5. Spies Eating Fruit
74
6. A Yuntero and Oxen
82
7. An Arco in the Form of an Eagle
93
8. Veneration of the Seor del Rescate
111
9. Part of La Obra
116
10. Artisans Construct a Castillo
121
11. A Diablito and Danzantes
131
12. Death
137

Page x
MAPS
1. Lake Ptzcuaro Region
11
2. Tzintzuntzan: Principal Public Places
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