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Who Defines Indigenous?: Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern Mexico

Who Defines Indigenous?: Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern Mexico

Martinez Novo, Carmen

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Native American HistoryAnthropologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 0813536693
ISBN13: 9780813536699
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Nov 4 2005
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

For years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous identities. But is the reinforcement of ethnic identity among migrant groups always a process of self-liberation? In this surprising study, Carmen Martínez Novo draws on her ethnographic research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of Mexico to Baja California to show that sometimes the push for indigenous labels is more a process of external oppression than it is of minority empowerment.

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