An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?

This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.

This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for