Histories and stories from Chiapas : border identities in Southern Mexico /
by R. Aída Hernández Castillo ; translated by Martha Pou ; foreword by Renato Rosaldo.
- First edition.
- xix, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.
Foreword / First Border Crossing. Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra -- The Postrevolutionary National Project and the Mexicanization of the Mam People. Forced Integration into the Nation. Mam Women and the Myth of Mestizaje. Federal and Local Indigenismos. From the Finca to the Ejido: Economic Integration. Presbyterianism and a New Mam Identity -- The Modernizing Project: Between the Museum and the Diaspora. The "Stabilizing Development" Anthropologists in the Sierra: The Mam People as Health Problem and as National Heritage. Diaspora to the Rain Forest. Second Border Crossing. Pedro: Searching for Paradise on Earth -- Mam Jehovah's Witnesses: New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation. In Search of Paradise. Everyday Life at Las Ceibas. The Strength of Utopia and Antinational Discourse. Different Contexts, Different Identities -- From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenismo in the Sierra Madre. Two Struggling Perspectives. From San Cristobal to Patzcuaro. Participative Indigenismo. The CCI Mam-Mocho-Cakchiquel. Third Border Crossing: Don Eugenio: "Rescuing" Mam Culture -- Mam Dance Groups: New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past. The Mam Supreme Council. Mam Dances. Memory and Performance of Everyday Life. Dispute in the Construction of Mam Traditions. Fourth Border Crossing. Dona Luz: Organizing for Women's Rights -- Organic Growers: Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions. The Forania de la Sierra: The New Social Ministry. Globalization and Organic Markets: Mam Identity and Agro-ecological Discourses. New Cultural Discourses and the Reinvention of Mam Utopia. Collective Reflection and New Spaces of Organization. Mam Women and Gender Demands -- From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising. Salimismo: The Administration's Two-faced Policy. PRONASOL Indigenismo. The Impact of the Zapatista Rebellion on the Life of Mam Peasants. Claiming the Power to Name: The Struggle for Autonomy. The Voices of Women. Again a Two-faced Policy: Economic Aid and Paramilitarization. Renato Rosaldo -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Mam Indians--Ethnic identity.--Mexico Indians of Mexico--Ethnic identity.--Mexico--Chiapas