To Die In This Way: Nicaraguan Indians And The Myth Of Mestizaje, 18801965 (Latin America Otherwise),Used

To Die In This Way: Nicaraguan Indians And The Myth Of Mestizaje, 18801965 (Latin America Otherwise),Used

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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 mestizajea cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identityinvolved a decadeslong 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 mixedrace identity.By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from the national memory, To Die in This Way critiques the enterprise of third world nationbuilding and thus marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history that will also interest anthropologists and students of social and cultural historians.

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