Histories and stories from Chiapas : border identities in Southern Mexico

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

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, Aiacute;da Hernaacute;ndez delves into the experie...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída
Format: eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Mam Indians > Mexico > Ethnic identity.
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Chiapas > Ethnic identity.
Indians > Ethnic identity > Mexico > Chiapas.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Indians > Ethnic identity
Indians of Mexico > Ethnic identity
Indianen.
Chiapas (volk)
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Mexico
Mexico > Chiapas
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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's Witnesses : new religious identities and rejection of the nation
  • 4. From Mestizo Mexico to multicultural Mexico : indigenismo in the Sierra Madre
  • 5. Mam dance groups : new cultural identities and the performance of the past
  • 6. Organic growers : agro-ecological Catholicism and the invention of traditions
  • 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista uprising.

Similar Items