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Title Beyond Alterity : Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico / edited by Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo ; afterword by Paul K. Eiss
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018

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Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Beyond Alterity? / Paula López Caballero with Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo; PART I. Land and Government; 1. The Practices of Communal Landholding: Indian Pueblo Property Relations in Colonial Mexico / Emilio KourÃƯ; 2. Connected Communities: Villagers and Wider Social Systems in the Late Colonial and Early National Periods / Peter Guardino; 3. Indigenous Communities, Political Transformations, and Mexicoâ#x80;#x99;s War of Independence in the Gulf Coast Region / Michael T. Ducey
4. Happy Together? â#x80;#x9C;Indians, â#x80;#x9D; Liberalism, and Schools in the Oaxaca and Puebla Sierras, 1876â#x80;#x93;1911 / Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo5. Todos tenemos la crisma de dios: Engaging Spanish Literacy in a Tlaxcalan Pueblo / Elsie Rockwell; 6. Communal and Indigenous Landholding in Contemporary Yucatan: Tracing the Changing Property Relations in the Postrevolutionary Ejido / Gabriela Torres-Mazuera; PART II. Science; 7. From Anatomical Collection to National Museum, circa 1895: How Skulls and Female Pelvises Began to Speak the Language of Mexican National History / Laura Cházaro
8. Anthropological Debates Around the Indigenous Subject and Alterity, 1940â#x80;#x93;1948 / Paula López Caballero9. Displacement, Development, and the Creation of a Modern IndÃƯgena in the Papaloapan, 1940sâ#x80;#x93;1970s / Diana Lynn Schwartz; 10. Encapsulated History: Evon Vogt and the Anthropological Making of the Maya / José Luis Escalona ÂƯVictoria; 11. In Sickness and in Myth: Genetic Avatars of Indigenous Alterity and the Mexican Nation / Vivette GarcÃƯa ÂƯDeister; Epilogue. Beyond Alterity, Beyond Occidentalism: â#x80;#x9C;Indigenous Otherâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;Western Self â#x80;#x9D; in Mexico / Paul K. Eiss; Contributors
Summary A sweeping look at the complicated concept and history of Indigeneity in Mexico--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Other (Philosophy) -- Mexico
Indigenous peoples -- Mexico -- Ethnic identity
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity
Other (Philosophy)
Mexico
Form Electronic book
Author Eiss, Paul K., writer of afterword
Acevedo Rodrigo, Ariadna, editor
López Caballero, Paula, editor
ISBN 9780816538188
0816538182