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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823536803321

Autore

Campbell Howard <1957->

Titolo

Mexican memoir : a personal account of anthropology and radical politics in Oaxaca / / Howard Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2001

ISBN

1-282-57348-9

9786612573484

0-313-39052-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

305.897/607274

Soggetti

Zapotec Indians - Politics and government

Zapotec Indians - Government relations

Zapotec Indians - Social conditions

Ethnology - Mexico - Juchitan de Zaragoza - Fieldwork

Political anthropology - Mexico - Juchitan de Zaragoza

Juchitan de Zaragoza (Mexico) Ethnic relations

Juchitan de Zaragoza (Mexico) Politics and government

Juchitan de Zaragoza (Mexico) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An anthropologist in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec -- Fieldwork in Juchitan and San Blas -- Zapotec community and family life -- COCEI radical politics -- Zapotec cultural movement -- An end and a beginning.

Sommario/riassunto

Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI. An anthropologist who married a Zapotec woman, the author chronicles his fieldwork in this memoir. His research is interwoven with his personal experiences and addresses the political dilemmas of contemporary ethnography. Campbell's informants include internationally known politicians, poets, and painters who live in Juchitan, a large city controlled by indigenous activists, giving his study an insider's perspective.||While ado