The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico

Rus, Jan; Rus, Diane l.

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“…Following a 1940 conference of Latin American intellectuals and politicos held in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, indigenistas associated disidentification with or resistance to nationstates as a root cause of indigenous poverty (Giraudo 2012). INI development campaigns comprised sites of encounter and negotiation between local communities and state actors (Dillingham 2021; see also Rus 1994Rus , 2004. Cultural agents of the INI's pilot Coordinating Center worked with community representatives to construct schools, clinics, agricultural projects, and roads.…”

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Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

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2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryIn 1951, Mexico's Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) established a coordinating center for a pilot development project in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. INI administrators sought to draw Tzotzil‐ and Tzeltal‐speaking indigenous communities that radiated around San Cristóbal into identification with the Mexican state and its political mythology of racial‐cultural mixture, or mestizaje. To do so, the INI built roads. State investment in the transportation infrastructure of indigenous Chiapas enabled the geographical mobility of scores of U.S. anthropologists and students who used these roads to access “closed corporate communities” such as Zinacantán during the late‐1950s and 1960s. Working from archived correspondence and field notes, this essay examines Harvard Chiapas Project founder Evon Vogt's early project interviews conducted on these roads in a Land Rover. Reading the Land Rover as a space‐making technology of ethnographic rapport, I ask how such vehicles have structured ethnographic forms of intimacy and attachment and whether they render the interview space a site of capitalist capture. I ultimately refract a surfaced critique of the interview form's capitalist coloniality through a weak‐theoretical evocation of the Land Rover's social, technological, and symbolic indeterminacy.

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Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

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“…En el caso de los términos tzotzil y tzeltal, de acuerdo con normas establecidas por el Centro de Lengua, Arte y Literatura Indígena (CELALI), una institución del gobierno del estado de Chiapas, en la ortografía se sustituye "tz" por "ts" (Rus y Rus, 2016).…”

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Los templos como espacios sagrados en el protestantismo indígena de Chiapas: el caso de dos iglesias de San Cristóbal de Las Casas

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2017

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The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico

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Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Los templos como espacios sagrados en el protestantismo indígena de Chiapas: el caso de dos iglesias de San Cristóbal de Las Casas

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