To Die in this Way Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially "forgotten" indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje-a cultural homogeneity t...

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Main Author: Gould, Jeffrey L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press [1998]
Series:Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Indians of Central America > Cultural assimilation > Nicaragua
Indians of Central America > Nicaragua > Ethnic identity
Indians, Treatment of > Nicaragua > History
Mestizaje > Nicaragua
Online Access:DE-1043
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DE-858
DE-859
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Summary:Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially "forgotten" indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje-a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity-involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and records of the elite discourse that suppressed the expression of cultural differences and rationalized the destruction of Indian communities, Gould tells a story of cultural loss. Land expropriation and coerced labor led to cultural alienation that shamed the indigenous population into shedding their language, religion, and dress. Beginning with the 1870s, Gould historicizes the forces that prompted a collective movement away from a strong identification with indigenous cultural heritage to an "acceptance" of a national mixed-race identity.By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from the national memory, To Die in This Way critiques the enterprise of third world nation-building and thus marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history that will also interest anthropologists and students of social and cultural historians
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages) 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps
ISBN:9780822398844
DOI:10.1515/9780822398844

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