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Setting the Virgin on Fire
Marjorie Becker
其他書名
Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
出版University of California Press, 1995
主題Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of StateHistory / GeneralHistory / Latin America / GeneralHistory / Latin America / MexicoHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin AmericanReligion / Christianity / CatholicSocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN05200841959780520084193
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mbYwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.

This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cárdenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture.

Becker brilliantly combines concerns with culture and power and a deep historical empathy to bring to life the men and women of her story. She shows how Mexico's government today owes much of its subtlety to the peasants of Michoacán.