Histories and stories from Chiapas : border identities in Southern Mexico /
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| Author / Creator: | Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xix, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4481856 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- First Border Crossing
- Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenism 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
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising
- Salinismo: 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
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index