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Rethinking Mexican indigenismo : the INI's Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas and the fate of a utopian project
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- Creator
- Stephen E. Lewis
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- xv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826359025, 9780826359032, 0826359035, 0826359027
- OCLC
- on1007047979, on1008764982
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.
- Part I. The utopian project -- Dramatis personae: the indigenous, ladinos, and indigenistas -- Negotiating indigenismo: the bilingual cultural promoter -- Utopian dreams and the mística indigenista -- Part II. Sober realities -- Winning the battle, losing the war: the INI versus the Pedrero Alcohol monopoly -- Take two: the INI charts a more modest course -- Modernizing message, mystical messenger: the many uses of the Teatro Petul -- Medical pluralism and the limits of INI health programs -- From innovation to administration: the Coordinating Center's very long decade, 1958-1970 -- Did the INI promote caciquismo? -- Part III. Crisis, rekindled populism, and the fate of Mexican indigenismo -- The generation of 1968, the critique of Mexican anthropology, and the INI's response -- Indigenismo and the populist resurgence (1970-1976) -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Centro Coordinador Indigenista Tzeltal-Tzotzil -- History -- 20th century.
- Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century.
- Tzeltal Indians -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands -- Government relations.
- Tzeltal Indians -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Tzotzil Indians -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands -- Government relations.
- Tzotzil Indians -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Chiapas Highlands (Mexico) -- Race relations.
- Indians of Mexico -- Government relations.