| Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project Contributor(s): Lewis, Stephen E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826359027 ISBN-13: 9780826359025 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.897 |
| LCCN: 2017015016 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Echeverr a, but Mexican anthropologists, indigenistas, and the indigenous themselves increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them obsolete. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lewis, Stephen E.: - 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. |
