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Patronage, Politics, and the Articulation of Local Community and National Society in Pre-1968 Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sidney M. Greenfield
Sidney M. Greenfield*
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201
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The following pages examine the relationship between the transactions that constitute systems of patronage and clientage and politics as it operated in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the mid-1960s. The objective will be to show how the asymmetrical exchanges of patronage and the political-electoral system served to articulate local communities with the institutional systems of the larger society.

The data and analysis will be presented through an examination of the activities of individuals in two small municίpio communities in the Zona da Mata of the State of Minas Gerais during the critical election campaign for governor in the year 1965. By examining some of the activities of a local doctor and a lawyer involved in politics, we shall be able to make explicit the transactional process by means of which segments of local communities in the region were articulated, through the political-electoral process, to the state and national level institutions of Brazilian society.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , May 1977 , pp. 139 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1977

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