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Seeing Indians : a study of race, nation, and power in El Salvador /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tilley, Virginia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Indians of Central America > El Salvador > History.
Indians of Central America > El Salvador > Ethnic identity.
Indians of Central America > Cultural assimilation > El Salvador.
Ethnic conflict > El Salvador.
El Salvador > Race relations.
El Salvador > Ethnic relations.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A conqueror's vision
  • "There are no Indians in El Salvador" : indigeneity, the state, and power
  • El Salvador's ethnic landscape/s
  • "What is an Indian?"
  • In the shadow of the Maya
  • Remembering Cuscatlán
  • From colonial rule to independence
  • The Matanza : genocide, ethnocide-- auto-ethnocide?
  • Assimilated or erased? : ethnocide by statistics
  • Being mestizo: the twisted logics of Mestizaje
  • Celebrating Indians.