Inventing tradition at gunpoint: Culture, caciquismo and state formation in the región mixe, Oaxaca (1930-1959)

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-234

  Smith, Benjamin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caciquismo; Indigenismo; Mixe; Oaxaca; Post revolutionary Mexico; Violence

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNICITY; SOCIAL HISTORY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VIOLENCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

BROSIMUM RUBESCENS;

EID: 40749137793     PISSN: 02613050     EISSN: 14709856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00264.x     Document Type: Article

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