Indian and nation in revolutionary Mexico / Alexander S. Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Alexander S. (Alexander Scott), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Government relations.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Remaking the Indian in Revolutionary Mexico xiii

1 The Indian and the Nation 3

2 The Problems and Promise of the Internados Indigenas 34

3 Science and State Formation in the Departmento de Asuntos Indigenas 67

4 Empowering the Masses at the Congresos Regionales Indigenas 96

5 Indigenismo in the Shadow 127

Conclusion: The Indigena Capacitado 152

Appendix A Distribution of Centros de Educacion Indigena as of August 1937 165

Appendix B Work of the Comision Intersecretarial de Estudio y Planeacion en el Valle de Mezquital as of September 1939 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0816523452

OCLC:

52766282