LEADER 04092nam 22006734 450 001 9910965850303321 005 20140811103215.0 010 $a9780822320982 010 $a0822320983 010 $a9780822398844 010 $a0822398842 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398844 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222286 035 $a(OCoLC)891395400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10909550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007980 035 $a(OCoLC)1141500018 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81066 035 $a885844318 035 $a(DE-B1597)554675 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398844 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161260 035 $a(Perlego)1466447 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222286 100 $a20140808d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTo die in this way $eNicaraguan Indians and the myth of mestizaje, 1880-1965 /$fJeffrey L. Gould 210 1$aDurham, N.C. :$cDuke University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 1 $aLatin America otherwise 311 08$a9781322067537 311 08$a1322067538 311 08$a9780822320845 311 08$a0822320843 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-299) and index. 327 $g1.$t"Vana Ilusion!": The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925 --$g2.$t"Not Even a Handful of Dirt": The Dawn of Citizenship and the Suppression of Community in Boaco, 1890-1930 --$g3.$t"The Rebel Race": The Struggles of the Indigenous Community of Sutiaba, 1900-1960 --$g4.$tGender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje, 1920-1940 --$g5.$t"En Pleno Siglo XX": Indigenous Resistance, Indigenismo, and Citizenship, 1930-1940 --$g6.$tCrimes in the Countryside: Burning Bushes, Stolen Saints, and Murder, 1940-1954 --$g7.$tMemories of Mestizaje, Memories of Accumulation: The Indigenous Dimension in the Peasant Movements, 1954-1965. 330 $aChallenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially ?forgotten? indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje?a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity?involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and records of the elite discourse that suppressed the expression of cultural differences and rationalized the destruction of Indian communities, Gould tells a story of cultural loss. Land expropriation and coerced labor led to cultural alienation that shamed the indigenous population into shedding their language, religion, and dress. Beginning with the 1870s, Gould historicizes the forces that prompted a collective movement away from a strong identification with indigenous cultural heritage to an ?acceptance? of a national mixed-race identity.By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from the national memory, To Die in This Way critiques the enterprise of third world nation-building and thus marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history that will also interest anthropologists and students of social and cultural historians. 410 0$aLatin America otherwise. 606 $aIndians of Central America$xCultural assimilation$zNicaragua 606 $aMestizaje$zNicaragua 606 $aIndians of Central America$zNicaragua$xEthnic identity 606 $aIndians, Treatment of$zNicaragua$xHistory 615 0$aIndians of Central America$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aMestizaje 615 0$aIndians of Central America$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aIndians, Treatment of$xHistory. 676 $a305.897/07285 676 $a305.89707285 700 $aGould$b Jeffrey L$0901382 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965850303321 996 $aTo die in this way$94359416 997 $aUNINA