The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America: Mestizo Acts

ISBN-13: 9780367892357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str.

Paul K. Eiss; Joanne Rapport

Opis

Challenging notions of "mestizaje", or race-mixture, based upon biological notions of race, this book provides a political and performative approach to mestizaje in Latin America. It originally published as a special issue in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Mestizo acts Paul K. Eiss  2. Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Laura A. Lewis  3. Playing mestizo: festivity, language, and theatre in Yucatán, Mexico Paul K. Eiss  4. Foundational essays as ‘mestizo-criollo acts’: the Bolivian case Javier Sanjinés C.  5. Mestizaje as ethical disposition: indigenous rights in the neoliberal state Deborah Poole 6. Racing to the top: descent ideologies and why Ladinos never meant to be mestizos in colonial Guatemala John M. Watanabe  7. Mestizaje, multiculturalism, liberalism, and violence Peter Wade 

O autorze

Paul K. Eiss is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and History at Carnegie Mellon. In publications like In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community and the Politics of History in Yucatán (2010), he explores: labor, value, commodities, indigeneity, mestizaje, media, violence and the politics of historical memory.

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (2014), Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia (2005) and coauthor (with Tom Cummins) of Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes (2011), Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History (1994) and The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Northern Andes (1998).