Title To die in this way : Nicaraguan Indians and the myth of mestizaje, 1880-1965 / Jeffrey L. Gould

Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations, map Series Latin America otherwise Latin America otherwise. Contents 1. "Vana Ilusion!": The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925 -- 2. "Not Even a Handful of Dirt": The Dawn of Citizenship and the Suppression of Community in Boaco, 1890-1930 -- 3. "The Rebel Race": The Struggles of the Indigenous Community of Sutiaba, 1900-1960 -- 4. Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje, 1920-1940 -- 5. "En Pleno Siglo XX": Indigenous Resistance, Indigenismo, and Citizenship, 1930-1940 -- 6. Crimes in the Countryside: Burning Bushes, Stolen Saints, and Murder, 1940-1954 -- 7. Memories of Mestizaje, Memories of Accumulation: The Indigenous Dimension in the Peasant Movements, 1954-1965 Summary 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.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 nation-building 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-299) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of Central America -- Cultural assimilation -- Nicaragua Mestizaje -- Nicaragua Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Ethnic identity Indians, Treatment of -- Nicaragua -- History Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Cultural assimilation SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Indians of Central America -- Cultural assimilation Indians of Central America -- Ethnic identity Indians, Treatment of Mestizaje Mestiezen. Indianen. Indiens -- Nicaragua -- Identité collective. Indiens -- Nicaragua -- Acculturation. Indiens, Attitudes envers les -- Nicaragua -- Histoire. Métissage -- Nicaragua. Nicaragua Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822398844 0822398842

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