"This book is unique. There is simply no other extensive treatise
on the Mexican aristocracy. . . . The scholarship is sound. Nutini
knows Mexico better than any anthropologist alive." -- Henry R.
Selby, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
"Providing ample details about the Mexican aristocracy, Nutini
raises intriguing questions about the nature of social class by
highlighting the aristocracy's shifting place within Mexico's
superordinate social stratum." -- Journal of Anthropological
Research
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 nearly
four hundred years.
This expressive ethnography describes the transformation of the
Mexican aristocracy from the onset of the Mexican Revolution of
1910, when the aristocracy was unquestionably Mexico's
highest-ranking social class, until the end of the twentieth
century, when it had almost ceased to function as a superordinate
social group. Drawing on extensive interviews with group members,
Nutini maps out the expressive aspects of aristocratic culture in
such areas as perceptions of class and race, city and country
living, education and professional occupations, political
participation, religion, kinship, marriage and divorce, and social
ranking. His findings explain why social elites persist even when
theyhave lost their status as ruling and political classes and also
illuminate the relationship between the aristocracy and Mexico's
new political and economic plutocracy.
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