A Window into the Recent Past in Chiapas: Federal Education and Indigenismo in the Highlands, 1921-1940

• Autores: Stephen E. Lewis
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 6, Nº. 1, 2001, págs. 58-83
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the 1920s and 1930s Mexico's Ministry of Public Education (SEP) launched ambitious projects aimed at modernizing and "civilizing' the highlands of Chiapas "incorporating' its indigenous populations into the national mestizo mainstream, and imposing federal laws and instiaitions in the state. SEP teachers met fierce resistance from ladino alcohol mercliants, debt-labor contractors, planters and politicians and from the Tzotzil and Tzeltal Maya themselves. By the time President Lázaro Cárdenas managed to impose his reform agenda on the state in late 1936, die SEP's battle had largely been lost, kind and labor reforms merely provided local ladinos with new ways to control the highland Maya. By 1940, indigenous communities were tied politically to state and national party machines. Only now might tills system of domination lie breaking down, as the PRI reels from its recent losses at the national and state levels