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In the Name of El Pueblo - Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán (Paperback)
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In the Name of El Pueblo - Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán (Paperback)
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The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America,
referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the
people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and
historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss
explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the
concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. Eiss focuses
on working-class indigenous and mestizo populations, examining how
those groups negotiated the meaning of el pueblo among themselves
and in their interactions with outsiders, including landowners,
activists, and government officials. Combining extensive archival
and ethnographic research, he describes how residents of the region
have laid claim to el pueblo in varied ways, as exemplified in
communal narratives recorded in archival documents, in the
performance of plays and religious processions, and in struggles
over land, politics, and the built environment. Eiss demonstrates
that while el pueblo is used throughout the hemisphere, the term is
given meaning and power through the ways it is imagined and
constructed in local contexts. Moreover, he reveals el pueblo to be
a concept that is as historical as it is political. It is in the
name of el pueblo—rather than class, race, or nation—that
inhabitants of northwestern Yucatán stake their deepest claims not
only to social or political rights, but over history itself.
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