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Setting the Virgin on Fire : Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution - Marjorie Becker

Setting the Virgin on Fire

Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution

By: Marjorie Becker

Paperback | 4 January 1996 | Edition Number 1

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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 L¡zaro C¡rdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.

This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoac¡n. 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 C¡rdenas 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 Michoac¡n.
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"Becker offers some arresting examples, anecdotes and recollections, drawn from archival sources, and above all, oral interviews. The book sheds light on rural politics, the role of gender, revolutionary anticlericalism and popular Catholicism."--"Times Literary Supplement

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