The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

322 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA strongly integrated into the economic structure of Mexican society. In the process, it is claimed, ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 323 them. Whenever you sell them anything, they do the same thing to you. Be ca ...

324 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Figure 8.10 Followers of Pepe Figueres in the 1948 Costa Rican uprising. Reprinted, with permissio ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 325 Box 8.4 The Figueres Reforms in Costa Rica In Costa Rica, a powerful populi ...

326 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA defined in cultural rather than class terms was engaged by Guatemalan scholars and political leade ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 327 political, and cultural life in all these countries (especially in Guatemal ...

328 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA factor behind the party’s loss of power was its failure to deal with the “Indian Prob- lem” in the ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 329 his candidacy for the presidency, although he later withdrew from the conte ...

330 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Figure 8.11 Chamulan Indians carrying goods to the markets and shrines in the town of San Cristóba ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 331 that “has chosen to be ‘Indian’ within the greater mestizo world of modern ...

332 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA The incipient class of merchants and commercial farmers in Chamula early on was made up of Indians ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 333 tions, calendrical periods, day and night, seasons, rituals, and practicall ...

334 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Box 8.5 The Cultural Logic of Local Mayan Identities in Guatemala Many classic ethnographies have ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 335 unchanged through time). Indian identity in Monimbó and elsewhere in the Ma ...

336 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA bastardness. This has happened because the mestizo cultural identity historically de- rived from a ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 337 institutional cultural variations of a large nation such as Mexico. Many Me ...

338 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Box 8.6 Mesoamerican Identities in Mexico City The sociologist Alicja Iwanska in her book The Trut ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 339 (see the discussion of these reforms in the preceding section on developmen ...

340 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA The nation is Indian. This is the truth which first manifests itself with its enormous, sub- jugat ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 341 Figure 8.12 Artistic portrayal of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Laureate and lead ...