Histories and Stories from Chiapas : : Border Identities in Southern Mexico /

Histories and Stories from Chiapas : : Border Identities in Southern Mexico / / R. Aída Hernández Castillo.

The 1994 Zapatista uprising of Chiapas' Maya peoples against the Mexican government shattered the state myth that indigenous groups have been successfully assimilated into the nation. In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a May...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Hernández Castillo, R. Aída,
TeilnehmendeR:
Pou, Martha.
Rosaldo, Renato.
MitwirkendeR:
Rosaldo, Renato,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (317 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Contributor
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • First Border Crossing. Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra
  • 1. The Postrevolutionary National Project and the Mexicanization of the Mam People
  • 2. The Modernizing Project: Between the Museum and the Diaspora
  • 3. Mam Jehovah’sWitnesses: New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation
  • 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenismo in the Sierra Madre
  • Third Border Crossing. Don Eugenio: ‘‘Rescuing’’ Mam Culture
  • 5. Mam Dance Groups: New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past
  • Fourth Border Crossing. Doña Luz: Organizing forWomen’s Rights
  • 6. Organic Growers: Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions
  • 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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