Who Defines Indigenous?: Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern Mexico

by Carmen Martinez Novo

Book Overview

For years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous identities. But is the reinforcement of ethnic identity among migrant groups always a process of self-liberation? In this surprising study, Carmen Mart nez Novo draws on her ethnographic research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813536693
• ISBN13: 9780813536699
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher