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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.