Rituals of Marginality: Politics, Process, and Culture Change in Urban Central Mexico, 1969-1974.

In this political ethnography of the population of Netzahuacoyotl Izcalli, the fourth largest city in Mexico, Carlos Velez-Ibanez shows that although marginalized groups seldom emerge the clear winners of political struggles, they gain a sense of autonomy and social power that can never be erased.