Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project / Stephen E. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Stephen E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

20e siecle (2e moitie).

Developpement humain.

Mayas.

Indigenisme.

Anthropologie--Mexique--Chiapas (Mexique ; État).

Anthropologie.

Autochtones--Mexique--Chiapas (Mexique ; État)--Politique et gouvernement.

Autochtones.

Autochtones--Mexique--Chiapas (Mexique ; État).

Chiapas (Mexique).

Mexico--Chiapas Highlands.

Mexico.

Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico).

Centro Coordinador Indigenista Tzeltal-Tzotzil.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826359032

0826359035

OCLC:

1008764982