In the name of el Pueblo
Subtitle: place, community, and the politics of history in Yucatán
By: Paul K. Eiss.
Series: Latin America otherwise; Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780822347118; 9780822347279
Subjects: Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- History; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The last cacique : the archival landscapes of Kah, Comán, and Pueblo; title: King of the forest : civilization, savagery, and the annals of history; title: Hunucmá's Zapata : objects of insurgency and auguries of liberation; title: The redemption : subjects of revolution and objects of governance; title: The general and the beast : murder, martyrdom, and the bones of el Pueblo; title: The president's dead hand : surveys, maps, and the measure of el Pueblo; title: The war of the eggs : tragedy, redemption, and the carnivalesque; title: By the Virgin's grace : the archival landscapes of miracle, money, and memory; title: Poet, prophet, and politician : forgetting and remembering Hunucmá.