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Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion

By Higgins, Nicholas P

Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion Social Sciences

Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion

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This book offers a new way of understanding the Zapatista conflict as a counteraction to the forces of modernity and globalization that have rendered indigenous peoples virtually invisible throughout the world. Placing the conflict within a broad sociopolitical and historical context, Nicholas Higgins traces the relations between Maya Indians and the Mexican state from the conquest to the present- which reveals a centuries-long contest over the Maya people's identity and place within Mexico. His incisive analysis of this contest clearly explains how the notions of "modernity" and even of "the state" require the assimilation of indigenous peoples. With this understanding, Higgins argues, the Zapatista uprising becomes neither surprising nor unpredictable, but rather the inevitable outcome of a modernizing program that suppressed the identity and aspirations of the Maya peoples.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
259
Release Date:
2004-11-01
Publication Date:
2004-12-01
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0292705654
ISBN13:
9780292705654
Weight:
372 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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