Histories and stories from Chiapas : border identities in Southern Mexico /

Histories and stories from Chiapas : border identities in Southern Mexico / / by R. Aida Hernandez Castillo ; translated by Martha Pou ; foreword by Renato Rosaldo.

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Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xix, 295 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Renato Rosaldo ix
  • Preface xiii
  • Acknowledgments xvii
  • Introduction I
  • First Border Crossing.
  • Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra 12
  • 1. The Postrevolutionary National Project
  • and the Mexicanization of the Mam People 18
  • Forced Integration into the Nation 21 Mam Women and the Myth of
  • Mestizaje 26 Federal and Local Indigenismos 30 From the Finca
  • to the Ejido: Economic Integration 33 Presbyterianism and a New Mam
  • Identity 42
  • 2. The Modernizing Project:
  • Between the Museum and the Diaspora 49
  • The "Stabilizing Development" 51 Anthropologists in the Sierra: The
  • Mam People as Health Problem and as National Heritage 54 Diaspora
  • to the Rain Forest '72
  • Second Border Crossing. Pedro:
  • Searching for Paradise on Earth 76
  • 3. Mam Jehovah's Witnesses:
  • New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation 81
  • In Search of Paradise 83 Everyday Life at Las Ceibas 87 The
  • Strength of Utopia and Antinational Discourse 90 Diferent Contexts,
  • Different Identities 95
  • 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico:
  • Indigenismo in the Sierra Madre 100
  • Two Struggling Perspectives 102 From San Cristobal to
  • Pdtzcuaro 105 Participative Indigenismo 110 The CCI
  • Mam-Mochd-Cakchiquel 114
  • Third Border Crossing. Don Eugenio: "Rescuing" Mam Culture 122
  • 5. Mam Dance Groups:
  • New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past 129
  • The Mam Supreme Council 130 Mam Dances 133 Memory and
  • Performance ofEveryday Life 137 Dispute in the Construction of Mam
  • Traditions 151
  • Fourth Border Crossing. Doha Luz: Organizing for Women's Rights 156
  • 6. Organic Growers:
  • Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions 161
  • The Forania de la Sierra: The New Social Ministry 163 Globalization
  • and OrganicMarkets: Mam Identity and Agro-ecological Discourses 169
  • New Cultural Discourses and the Reinvention of Mam Utopia 174
  • Collective Reflection and New Spaces of Organization 178 Mam Women
  • and Gender Demands 181
  • From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising 187
  • Salinismo: The Administration's Two-faced Policy 188 PRONASOL
  • Indigenismo 194 The Impact of the Zapatista Rebellion on the Life of
  • Mam Peasants 203 Claiming the Power to Name: The Struggle for
  • Autonomy 214 The Voices of Women 219 Again a Two-faced
  • Policy: EconomicAid and Paramilitarization 224
  • Conclusion 233
  • Notes 243
  • Glossary 257
  • Bibliography 261
  • Index 279.

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