Eiss / Mignolo / Silverblatt In the Name of El Pueblo

Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9279-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

An anthropological and historical analysis of the multiple meanings of the term el pueblo, among working-class indigenous and mestizo populations in Mexicos Yucatán peninsula.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eiss, Paul

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. From Archive to Ashes 1

I. Dispossession

1. The Last Cacique: The Archival Landscapes of Kah, Comun, and Pueblo 19

2. Kings of the Forest: Civilization, Savagery, and the Annals of History 45

3. Hunucma's Zapata: Objects of Insurgency and Auguries of Liberation 77

II. Repossession

4. The Redemption: Subjects of Revolution and Objects of Governance 105

5. The General and the Beast: Murder, Martyrdom, and the Bones of el Pueblo 131

6. The President's Dead Hand: Surveys, Maps, and the Measure of el Pueblo 158

III. Recognition

7. The War of the Eggs: Tragedy, Redemption, and the Carnivalesque 189

8. By the Virgin's Grace: The Archival Landscapes of Miracle, Money, and Memory 218

9. Poet, Prophet, and Politician: Forgetting and Remembering Hunucma 244

Conclusion. "No"-Place 270

Appendix 277

Notes 281

Glossary 309

Bibliography 313

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Paul K. Eiss is Associate Professor of Anthropology and History and the Director of the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University.