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by Becker, Marjorie


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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 Lzaro Crdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.

This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacn. 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 Crdenas 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 Michoacn.

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In the northwestern corner of prerevolutionary Michoacan, social abandon at times took on an almost biblical cast as women trailed after reapers, gleaning spilled and forgotten stalks of wheat.

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"A major work in the field of Mexican revolutionary and gender studies. Becker is an indefatigable fieldworker; the array and richness of her archival and oral sources is simply astonishing."--Gilbert M. Joseph, author of Revolution from Without

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  • Title Setting the Virgin on Fire Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
  • Author Becker, Marjorie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 194
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, U.S.A.
  • Date January 4, 1996
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780520084193
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic

About the author

Marjorie Becker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California.
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