Conversations with Moctezuma : Ancient shadows over modern life in Mexico / Dick J. Reavis
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : William Morrow and Company , c1990.Description: 296 p. : il. maps. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0-688-07999-7
- LAS 972.08 REA
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Latin American Studies | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS 972.08 REA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 062378 |
Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
LAS 972.08 PON Las soldaderas : women of the Mexican Revolution | LAS 972.08 PUR Mexico under Zedillo | LAS 972.08 RAA Twentieth century Mexico | LAS 972.08 REA Conversations with Moctezuma : Ancient shadows over modern life in Mexico | LAS 972.08 RID Distant neighbors : a portrait of the Mexicans | LAS 972.08 RUI The great rebellion; Mexico, 1905-1924 | LAS 972.08 SAN Everything you ever wanted to know about living in Mexico |
Reavis, senior editor of Texas Monthly, who lived in Mexico for a year, interprets the Mexican character in terms of the people's fatalism, their emphasis on family and local affairs, their perceived resistance to technology and the West's credo of personal success. His most telling observations in this rambling, forthright travelogue emerge through firsthand reportage as he covers an anti-nuke protest at a power plant, visits a village occupied by peasant guerrillas, tracks down Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, follows the 1988 presidential election marked by murders, mayhem and accusations of fraud. The shifting tapestry includes incisive commentary on Mexico's ``marginalized'' semi-employed, corruption, squatter towns and folk medicine, and Mexican Catholics' synthesis of pagan and Christian beliefs.
There are no comments on this title.