Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8263-5902-5
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Mexico’s National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas. This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll. After 1970 indigenismo may have served the populist aims of president Luis Echeverría, but Mexican anthropologists, indigenistas, and the indigenous themselves increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them obsolete.

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Stephen E. Lewis is a professor of history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945 and the coeditor of The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940.