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To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

Gould, Jeffrey L.

Paperback

Series: Latin America Otherwise

Native American HistoryAnthropologyCentral American History

ISBN10: 0822320983
ISBN13: 9780822320982
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 7 1998
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially forgotten indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje-a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity-involved a decades-long process of myth building.

Through interviews with indigenous peoples and records of the elite discourse that suppressed the expression of cultural differences and rationalized the destruction of Indian communities, Gould tells a story of cultural loss. Land expropriation and coerced labor led to cultural alienation that shamed the indigenous population into shedding their language, religion, and dress. Beginning with the 1870s, Gould historicizes the forces that prompted a collective movement away from a strong identification with indigenous cultural heritage to an acceptance of a national mixed-race identity.

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