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Elusive unity [electronic resource] : factionalism and the limits of identity politics in Yucatán, Mexico / Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

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Armstrong-Fumero, Fernando
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Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2013.
Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013.
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1 online resource (pages cm)
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Peasants and Maya, Solidarity and Factionalism -- 2."How It Happened That We Fomented This Town": Tensions between Family Autonomy and Community Solidarity during the Agrarian Reform -- 3."Back Then, There Was No Order": The Early Twentieth Century in Collective Memory -- 4."Now There Is More Culture": Rural Schools as Monuments to Revolutionary Culture -- 5."When I First Went to Study": Pedagogy, National History, and Bilingualism -- 6."That Time of Change": The Limits of Agriculture and the Rise of the Tourist Industry -- 7."What Does `Culture' Mean?": Progressivism, Patrimonialism, and Corporatism in Vernacular Discourse on Maya Culture -- 8.The Realpolitik of Yucatecan Multiculturalism.
Summary
"In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatan The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation's government as self-identified "peasants" and "Maya." Using ethnography, oral history, and archival research, Armstrong-Fumero shows how the same body of narrative tropes has defined the local experience of twentieth-century agrarianism and twenty-first-century multiculturalism. Through these recycled narratives, contemporary multicultural politics have also inherited some ambiguities that were built into its agrarian predecessor. Specifically, local experiences of peasant and indigenous politics are shaped by tensions between the vernacular language of identity and the intense factionalism that often defines the social organization of rural communities. This significant contribution will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and political scientists studying Latin America and the Maya"--
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9781607322399
1607322390
9781607322382 (hardback)
1607322382
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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