Rethinking Mexican indigenismo [electronic resource] : the INI's Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas and the fate of a utopian project / Stephen E. Lewis

Author: Lewis, Stephen E., 1967-
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2018]
Physical Description: xv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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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.

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9780826359025 (printed case : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.

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