Yaqui homeland and homeplace : the everyday production of ethnic identity /

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In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultane...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erickson, Kirstin C., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Yaqui women > Mexico > Sonora (State) > Social conditions.
Yaqui Indians > Mexico > Sonora (State) > Ethnic identity.
Femmes yaqui > Mexique > Sonora (État) > Conditions sociales.
Yaqui > Identité ethnique > Mexique > Sonora (État)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social conditions.
Yaqui Indians > Ethnic identity.
Sonora (Mexico : State) > Social conditions.
Yaqui River Valley (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Sonora (Mexique : État) > Conditions sociales.
Yaqui, Vallée du (Mexique) > Conditions sociales.
Mexico > Sonora (State)
Mexico > Yaqui River Valley.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "How fine it was" : memory and the production of ethnicity
  • "They will come from the other side of the sea" : prophecy, ethnogenesis, and agency in Yaqui narrative
  • Moving stories : displacement, return, and Yaqui identity
  • Traces of the past : haunting and enchantment on the Yaqui landscape
  • Women embodying Yaquiness : the struggle for--and with--difference
  • Domesticating ethnicity : women's altars, household ceremonies, and spaces of refuge
  • Material relations : reciprocity, devotional labor, and practical community
  • Lutu'uria : truth and the terrain of identity.

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