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Politics, identity, and Mexico's indigenous rights movements

Eisenstadt, Todd A

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\"Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity. It concludes that--contrary to many analyses of Chiapas's 1994 indigenous rebellion--external influences can trump ideology in framing social movements. Rural Chiapas's prevalent communitarian attitudes resulted partly from external land tenure institutions, rather than from indigenous identities alone. The book further points to recent indigenous rights movements in neighboring Oaxaca, Mexico, as examples of bottom-up multicultural institutions that might be emulated in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Indians of Mexico Politics and government. / Indians of Mexico Ethnic identity. / Indians of Mexico Civil rights. / Civil rights movements Mexico. / Indians of Mexico Statistics. / Social surveys Mexico. / Land tenure Social aspects Mexico. / Mexico Ethnic relations. / Chiapas (Mexico) Ethnic relations. / Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Ethnic relations.
• ISBN: 9781107001206, 110700120X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F1219.3.P7 E36 2011	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE