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Class and Ethnicity in Mexico

Somatic and Racial Considerations

Bibliographic Data

ID2736654
AuthorsHugo G Nutini (corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume36
Issue3
Pages227
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1828 • E-ISSN: 2160-3510
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3773987
OpenAlexW89701876
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited5

Based on research conducted during the past twenty years on superordinate stratification in Mexico City and class system of several cities, this article has three goals. First, it establishes the historical origin of ethnic categories that began strictly as racial categories in the sixteenth century. Second, it describes the main ethnic sectors of contemporary Mexican society, their class composition, and the principles of social mobility. Third, it analyzes interclass and interethnic relations and the cultural and racial perceptions they engender. The generalization of (1) apply to the entire country, whereas those of (2) and (3) characterize central Mexico (from Oaxaca to Jalisco and from coast to coast

Biology · Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · Somatic cell · Agricultural and Food Production Studies · Anthropology · Demography · Genetics · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Latin American rural development · Philosophy

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Citations per year0,96
Citation span1999 - 2026 (28)
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