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Inventing tradition at gunpoint : culture, caciquismo and state formation in the Región Mixe, Oaxaca (1930–1959)
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Smith, Benjamin T. (2008) Inventing tradition at gunpoint : culture, caciquismo and state formation in the Región Mixe, Oaxaca (1930–1959). Bulletin of Latin American Research, 27 (2). pp. 215-234. doi:10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00264.x ISSN 0261-3050.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00264.x
Abstract
This article examines the links between the creation of a post-revolutionary Mexican culture and the maintenance of traditional forms of cacical control. Taking as a case study Luis Rodríguez, a cacique from the state of Oaxaca, it is argued that he utilised state notions of indigenismo and indigenous cultural production to assert and maintain his position as the strongman of the Mixe ethnic group. However, despite the employment of state discourses, Rodríguez’s fiefdom was never subsumed into the corporate revolutionary state. Rather, these claims of ethnic unity were used as a smokescreen to deter state intervention. As a result, Rodríguez was forced to use intimidation and violence to control pueblos outside his immediate sphere of influence during the 1940s and 1950s.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Bulletin of Latin American Research | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0261-3050 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 215-234 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00264.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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