Zapotec renaissance
Subtitle: ethnic politics and cultural revivalism in southern Mexico
By: Howard Campbell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Coalición Obrera Campesina Estudiantil del Istmo (Mexico); Zapotec Indians -- Politics and government.; Zapotec Indians -- Ethnic identity.; Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico) -- Politics and government.
Description: "In this outstanding ethnography, Campbell explores how the construction of identity and the politics of ethnicity provide the Zapotec a sense of local power and independence. Focuses on the important role of indigenous intellectuals and the movement for local rule that has long consumed the community and its population"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Roots of Isthmus Zapotec ethnic politics (1350-1750); title: The emergence of Juchiteco resistance and rebellion (1750-1911); title: Capitalist transitions and Isthmus Zapotec society (1911-1993); title: Isthmus Zapotec intellectuals in the twentieth century: the politics and culture in Juchitán (1900-1970); title: From caciquismo to grassroots ethnic populism: the emergence of COCEI (1964-1981); title: Viva Juchitán libre!: the "people's government," impeachment, and COCEI'S return to power (1981-1993); title: Isthmus intellectuals, Zapotec history and culture, and COCEI'S ethnic ideology; title: Conclusions.