Rethinking Mexican indigenismo : the INI's Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas and the fate of a utopian project /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lewis, Stephen E., 1967- author.
Imprint:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 343 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Centro Coordinador Indigenista Tzeltal-Tzotzil -- History -- 20th century. Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century. Centro Coordinador Indigenista Tzeltal-Tzotzil. Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico) 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. Indians of Mexico -- Government relations. Indians of Mexico -- Government relations. Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government. Race relations. Tzotzil Indians -- Government relations. Tzotzil Indians -- Politics and government. Chiapas Highlands (Mexico) -- Race relations. Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589564

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Varying Form of Title:	INI's Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas and the fate of a utopian project Instituto Nacional Indigenista's Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas and the fate of a utopian project
ISBN:	9780826359032 0826359035 9780826359025
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2018).
Summary:	This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll.
Other form:	Print version: Lewis, Stephen E., 1967- Rethinking Mexican indigenismo. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018 9780826359025

Table of Contents:

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.

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