Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Contributor ix
5. Preface xiii
6. Acknowledgments xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. First Border Crossing. Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra
9. 1. The Postrevolutionary National Project and the Mexicanization of the Mam People 18
10. 2. The Modernizing Project: Between the Museum and the Diaspora 49
11. 3. Mam Jehovah’sWitnesses: New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation 81
12. 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenismo in the Sierra Madre 100
13. Third Border Crossing. Don Eugenio: ‘‘Rescuing’’ Mam Culture
14. 5. Mam Dance Groups: New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past 129
15. Fourth Border Crossing. Doña Luz: Organizing forWomen’s Rights
16. 6. Organic Growers: Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions 161
17. 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising 187
18. Conclusion 233
19. Notes 243
20. Glossary 257
21. Bibliography 261
22. Index 279