{"product_id":"histories-and-stories-from-chiapas-9780292731493","title":"Histories and Stories from Chiapas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas’s indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on \"being Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a multi-layered history of power and identity in Chiapas, this study is without parallel. It offers a richly textured and well-documented history of how the Mam of Chiapas have constructed their own conceptions of identity and citizenship.\" -Virginia Garrard-Burnett, author of Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword by Renato Rosaldo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e First Border Crossing. Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. The Postrevolutionary National Project and the Mexicanization of the Mam People \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Forced Integration into the Nation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mam Women and the Myth of Mestizaje \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Federal and Local Indigenismos \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From the Finca to the Ejido: Economic Integration \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Presbyterianism and a New Mam Identity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. The Modernizing Project: Between the Museum and the Diaspora \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The \"Stabilizing Development\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Anthropologists in the Sierra: The Mam People as Health Problem and as National Heritage \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Diaspora to the Rain Forest \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Second Border Crossing. Pedro: Searching for Paradise on Earth \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Mam Jehovah's Witnesses: New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In Search of Paradise \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Everyday Life at Las Ceibas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Strength of Utopia and Antinational Discourse \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Different Contexts, Different Identities \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenism in the Sierra Madre \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Two Struggling Perspectives \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From San Cristóbal to Pátzcuaro \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Participative Indigenismo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The CCI Mam-Mochó-Cakchiquel \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Third Border Crossing. Don Eugenio: \"Rescuing\" Mam Culture \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Mam Dance Groups: New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Mam Supreme Council \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mam Dances \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Memory and Performance of Everyday Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dispute in the Construction of Mam Traditions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fourth Border Crossing. Doña Luz: Organizing for Women's Rights \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Organic Growers: Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Foranía de la Sierra: The New Social Ministry \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Globalization and Organic Markets: Mam Identity and Agro-ecological Discourses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New Cultural Discourses and the Reinvention of Mam Utopia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Collective Reflection and New Spaces of Organization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mam Women and Gender Demands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Salinismo: The Administration's Two-faced Policy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e PRONASOL Indigenismo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Impact of the Zapatista Rebellion on the Life of Mam Peasants \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Claiming the Power to Name: The Struggle for Autonomy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Voices of Women \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Again a Two-faced Policy: Economic Aid and Paramilitarization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400865587543,"sku":"9780292731493","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292731493.jpg?v=1730471782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/histories-and-stories-from-chiapas-9780292731493","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}