Abstract
The Mexican muralist movement developed from 1921 to the mid-1950s, leaving a remarkable legacy and public record of Mexico’s social and political circumstances. Drawing upon a culturo-behavior science perspective, this chapter describes the antecedents, emergence, development, and decline of the movement. It illustrates the functions of contextual variables, individuals, and organizations that intertwined in its evolution. Although the specifics of the Mexican muralist movement were unique and nonreplicable, many of the movement’s properties are like those of other cultural phenomena, enabling this analysis to be used as a model for investigating other social systems of a similar nature.
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Malott, M.E. (2020). Evolution of the Mexican Muralist Movement: A Culturo-Behavior Science Account. In: Cihon, T.M., Mattaini, M.A. (eds) Behavior Science Perspectives on Culture and Community. Behavior Analysis: Theory, Research, and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45421-0_15
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