Mexico's "Popular Revolution": Mobilization and Myth in Yucatan, 1910-1940

Joseph, Gilbert M.

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“…Anthropological studies of Yucatan's elite are scarce (Folan 1967, Margolies 1969, Joseph 1979, Wells 1982, Joseph and Wells 1986, Rivero 1999, Loewe 2007. The people academics refer to as 'Maya' live in a world inhabited and often constructed by the gente bien and vice versa.…”

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Grieving formestizaje: alternative approaches to Maya identity in Yucatan, Mexico

Reyes‐Foster

2012

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This article takes as its point of departure the highly contested theoretical terrain of 'Maya' identity in Yucatan, Mexico. Set in the physical terrain of a state psychiatric hospital, this article uses a framework of identity culled from the narrative of a young woman, 'Claudina', committed to its wards, to argue that being 'in-between' categories of ethnic identity, an experience she characterises as a painful sense of ambiguous loss, can be fruitfully analysed using an analytical framework of ethnic identity introduced by Claudina herself. Specifically, I argue that categories of identity culled from Claudina's story -mestizaje and elegancia -represent a valuable opportunity to think about how power dynamics and relationships operate in situations of ambivalent identities and social suffering. To this end, I use Claudina's language as a point of departure for understanding the lived experience of everyday life in Yucatan today.But there is an elegance that comes from being a professional, and another that comes from mestizaje. My grandmother is a great wise woman, who has always taught me how things should be done in order to do them well.

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