Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo

The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project

Stephen E Lewis author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th May '18

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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 Echeverría, but Mexican anthropologists, indigenistas, and the indigenous themselves increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them obsolete.

Well written and clearly argued, this book analyzes the outcomes of a generation of government policy vis-à-vis indigenous peoples in Chiapas. . . . It is a superior contribution to the field in part because of its scope and in part because of its detail."" - Alexander S. Dawson, author of Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico

ISBN: 9780826359025

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 675g

352 pages