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Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The Ini's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
Contributor(s): Lewis, Stephen E. (Author)
ISBN: 082636151X     ISBN-13: 9780826361516
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - Mexico
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Dewey: 305.897
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 360 pages
 
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Honorable Mention for the 2019 Thomas McGann Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

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 indigenous people themselves increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them obsolete.