La India María en el cine mexicano

Indios y burros: Rethinking “la India María” as Ethnographic Cinema

“…Ivan Lipkies, Mexico, 1996]), or embodies the plight of Mexican migrants (Ni de aquí, ni de allá [dir. María Elena Velasco, Mexico, 1988]) (Huaco-Nuzum 1992;Valenzuela Arce 1998;D'Lugo 2008;Castro Ricalde 2011). Perhaps alluding to Tonta in a 1990 interview, Velasco defended her Mazahua protagonist as "naive and uneducated, but not dumb" (ingenua e inculta, pero no tonta) (1998, 182; original emphasis); we might then interpret the title as "Dumb, but not stupid," which connotes limited academic knowledge but real life know-how.…”