Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. LIST OF MAPS IX
4. PREFACE XI
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
6. 1 Introduction: Official History and the Myth of Secular Redemption 1
7. 2 A Culture of Purity and Redemption 10
8. 3 From the Margins of Purity to the Margins of Danger 39
9. 4 Call Out a Posse, Gather Up Their Music, Teach Them to Sing: The Reinvention of the Indian in Postrevolutionary Michoacan 61
10. 5 Revolutionary Lessons, I: Purity up in Smoke 77
11. 6 Revolutionary Lessons, II: The Compensations oflndianism 102
12. 7 Some Lessons of Their Own 116
13. 8 An End to the Innocence 133
14. Conclusion: The Redemption of the Mexican Revolution 155
15. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 163
16. INDEX 185