Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project

Synopsis

Part I. The Utopian Project -- Dramatis Personae: The Indigenous, Ladinos, And Indigenistas -- Negotiating Indigenismo: The Bilingual Cultural Promoter -- Utopian Dreams And The Mística Indigenista -- Part Ii. Sober Realities -- Winning The Battle, Losing The War: The Ini Versus The Pedrero Alcohol Monopoly -- Take Two: The Ini Charts A More Modest Course -- Modernizing Message, Mystical Messenger: The Many Uses Of The Teatro Petul -- Medical Pluralism And The Limits Of Ini Health Programs -- From Innovation To Administration: The Coordinating Center's Very Long Decade, 1958-1970 -- Did The Ini Promote Caciquismo? -- Part Iii. Crisis, Rekindled Populism, And The Fate Of Mexican Indigenismo -- The Generation Of 1968, The Critique Of Mexican Anthropology, And The Ini's Response -- Indigenismo And The Populist Resurgence (1970-1976) -- Conclusion. Stephen E. Lewis. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 319-336) And Index.