Magicians: The Response of Middle‐Class Mexican Households to Economic Crisis

Gilbert, Dennis

doi:10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.126

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“…Past studies of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean have focused on consumption, including food and home technologies, parallel indigenous and mestizo middle classes, and the mobilization of various forms of capital to confront economic downturns (Cahn ; Gilbert ; Himpele ; Pertierra ; Wilk ). This article analyzes the role that ethnic tourism plays in obtaining and maintaining middle‐class standing among Pomerode's semirural residents and the over eight thousand urban middle‐class tourists who visit each year (Jornal de Santa Catarina ).…”

Section: Festa Pomerana: a Convergence Of Ethnic Roots And Middle‐clamentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing the Middle Class: Domestic Tourism, Ethnic Roots, and Class Routes in Brazil

Ricke

2017

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m oEste artigo analisa o papel que o turismoétnico tem na construção da classe média e a interação entre as classes médias rurais e urbanas neste processo. Baseando-se em dados etnográficos da Festa Pomerana, uma festa alemã em Pomerode, Brasil, este artigo mostra que a manutenção da etnicidadeé parte de um amplo processo de construção da classe média no Brasil. Este artigo usa a metáfora roots/routes para analisar a formação e manutenção de certos segmentos da classe média na América Latina. Este artigo ilustra que a classe média no Brasil ajuda a perpetuar tradiçõesétnicas alemães no Brasil e ao mesmo tempo este turismoétnico contribui para a formação da classe média no país. O artigo salienta o papel que turismo doméstico tem na construção da identidade de classe média nas regiões rurais da América Latina e a interação com a classe média urbana. [Brasil, classe media, etnicidade, identidade, turismo] A b s t r a c tThis article analyzes the role that ethnic tourism plays in the formation of the middle class and the interaction of rural and urban residents in this process. Drawing on ethnographic data from Festa Pomerana, a German festival in Pomerode, Brazil, the article illustrates how the maintenance of ethnic roots is part of a larger process of constructing Brazil's middle class. It adapts the root/route metaphor established by previous scholars to analyze the formation and maintenance of certain segments of the middle class in Latin America. It argues that middle-class Brazilians' consumption of German and other ethnic traditions through domestic tourism helps perpetuate ethnic roots at the same time as it provides semirural hosts and urban tourists with routes to middle-classdom. This work highlights the role of domestic tourism in the construction of middle-class identity in less urban regions of Latin America and its interplay with middle-class identity in larger urban spaces. [Brazil, class, ethnicity, identity, tourism] As I and other participants enter Festa Pomerana in Pomerode, Brazil, the vivid blue and white ribbons and banners draw our attention, as do the colorful flower gardens of homes passed on the way to the festival grounds. Despite the hot and humid day, Brazilian dancers from Pomerode and the surrounding region perform German folk dances in several layers of clothing, including long sleeves and slacks. Their attire and performances are inspired by, and at times exact replications of, folk traditions from various regions in Germany and other Germanic countries. While some of the Brazilian locals and tourists in attendance are dressed in contemporary clothing, others sport traditional-looking German attire adapted in design and material for Brazilian weather and fashion and sold by local seamstresses. The smell of the wood-fired ovens and baking bread and cucas, a German-style dessert made daily on site by local women, tempt the senses and the pocket book, as do the many ethnically German dishes offered at the event and its cooking competitions. Within Festa Pomerana, the A...

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Section: Festa Pomerana: a Convergence Of Ethnic Roots And Middle‐clamentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing the Middle Class: Domestic Tourism, Ethnic Roots, and Class Routes in Brazil

Ricke

2017

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…Chautla's proximity to Puebla, particularly as the city continues to expand outward through the construction of middle-class housing developments, gives Chautlan women a competitive edge over more rural counterparts. Demand for domestic work remains steady as increasing numbers of middle-class women take work outside the home in order to maintain their comparatively high, but increasingly precarious, standard of living (Estrada, 1999;Gilbert, 2005).…”

Section: Domestic Work: From Complement To Necessitymentioning

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Stoneworkers, Masons and Maids

Binford

Churchill

2007

Critique of Anthropology

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■ Following William Roseberry, this article treats 'local facts as world historical facts' in order to discuss the contours of a conflictive and contradictory process of proletarianization among stoneworkers, masons and maids in one peri-urban community of central Mexico. We analyze the dialectic of internal and external relationships that, over time, shaped social struggles on an uneven field of power in Santo Tomás Chautla (Puebla) before and after the 1994 peso devaluation. Proletarianization in Chautla is uneven, but has in every instance entailed a wider and deeper involvement with commodity production.

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Magicians: The Response of Middle‐Class Mexican Households to Economic Crisis

Cited by 2 publications

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Producing the Middle Class: Domestic Tourism, Ethnic Roots, and Class Routes in Brazil

Producing the Middle Class: Domestic Tourism, Ethnic Roots, and Class Routes in Brazil

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