Resistance and contradiction
Subtitle: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
By: Charles R. Hale.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Miskito Indians -- Government relations.; Miskito Indians -- Wars.; Miskito Indians -- Politics and government.; Indians, Treatment of -- Nicaragua.; Nicaragua -- Ethnic relations.; Nicaragua -- Politics and government.; Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "This interesting ethnography follows the contradictions of Miskitu ethnicity as the population (caught between US imperialism and the Sandinistas) struggles to become part of the nation while maintaining its identity. Hale explores the politics of nation building, the constitutive role of hegemony among subordinate peoples, and the place of anthropology and the anthropologist in the construction of identity"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-289) and index.