Table of Contents

* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part One: Historical Overview * Chapter 1. Estates and Classes * Chapter 2. Race and Ethnicity * Chapter 3. Haciendas and Their Workers * Part Two: The Postrevolutionary Period (1920-2000) * Chapter 4. The Upper Classes: Aristocracy, Plutocracy, Political Class, and Prestige Upper-Middle Class * Chapter 5. The Middle Classes * Chapter 6. The Urban Lower Classes * Chapter 7. The Indian-Mestizo Transition: From Ethnic Estates to Social Classes * Chapter 8. Expression and Social Class * Conclusion * References * Index

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Based on fifty years of ethnographic fieldwork, as well as extensive archival research, this is the most complete study of the historical evolution of Mexico's class system currently available

About the Author

HUGO G. NUTINI is University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. BARRY L. ISAAC is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati. With Nutini, he is the coauthor of Los Pueblos de Habla Nahuatl and was also the series editor of Research in Economic Anthropology from 1983 until 2000.