Yaqui homeland and homeplace : the everyday production of ethnic identity / Kirstin C. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Kirstin C., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yaqui women--Mexico--Sonora (State)--Social conditions.

Yaqui women.

Yaqui Indians--Mexico--Sonora (State)--Ethnic identity.

Yaqui Indians.

Ethnicity.

Social conditions.

Sonora (Mexico : State)--Social conditions.

Sonora (Mexico : State).

Yaqui River Valley (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Yaqui River Valley (Mexico).

Mexico--Sonora (State).

Physical Description:

xii, 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2008]

Summary:

In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous processes of place making and identification, and the inseparability of ethnicity from female-identified spaces, roles, and practices.

This absorbing study contributes new empirical knowledge about a Native American community as it adds to the growing anthropology of space/place and gender. By inviting readers into the homes and patios where Yaqui women discuss their lives, it offers a highly personalized account of how they construct - and reconstruct - their identity.

Contents:

"How fine it was" : memory and the production of ethnicity

"They will come from the other side of the sea" : prophecy, ethnogenesis, and agency in Yaqui narrative

Moving stories : displacement, return, and Yaqui identity

Traces of the past : haunting and enchantment on the Yaqui landscape

Women embodying Yaquiness : the struggle for

and with

difference

Domesticating ethnicity : women's altars, household ceremonies, and spaces of refuge

Material relations : reciprocity, devotional labor, and practical community

Lutu'uria : truth and the terrain of identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-180) and index.

ISBN:

9780816527342

0816527342

9780816527359

0816527350

OCLC:

226389402