Review: The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, by Alex M. Saragoza
In: Aztlán: international journal of Chicano studies research, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 157-162
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In: Aztlán: international journal of Chicano studies research, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 157-162
In: Current anthropology, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 276-279
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 973-985
ISSN: 0197-9183
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 973-985
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
U.S. job and spatial mobility are compared here for recent returnee migrants from two Mexican areas — Rio Grande, Zacatecas, in the interior; and Nueva Rosita-Muzquiz, Coahuila, near the U.S. border. Results suggest that the interior migrants fit a hierarchical migrant model: they move up the urban hierarchy from U.S. rural areas to towns and cities, experiencing substantial job mobility at first, but little after reaching the urban sector. Border migrants fit a shuttle migrant model: they return to the same job and place year after year, experiencing little or no spatial and occupational mobility, although they tend to hold somewhat higher status jobs.
In: Current anthropology, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 451-482
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 271-311
ISSN: 1537-5382
Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons in