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CONTENTS Foreword by Renato Rosaldo ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 First Border Crossing. Don Roberto: Working for Change in the Sierra 12 1. The Postrevolutionary National Project and the Mexicanization of the Mam People 18 Forced Integration into the Nation 21 Mam Women and the Myth of Mestizaje 26 Federal and Local Indigenismos 30 From the Finca to the Ejido: Economic Integration 33 Presbyterianism and a New Mam Identity 42 2. The Modernizing Project: Between the Museum and the Diaspora 49 The ‘‘Stabilizing Development’’ 51 Anthropologists in the Sierra: The Mam People as Health Problem and as National Heritage 54 Diaspora to the Rain Forest 72 Second Border Crossing. Pedro: Searching for Paradise on Earth 76 Tseng 2001.4.30 17:41 DST:103 6289 Hernandez / HISTORIES AND STORIES FROM CHIAPAS / sheet 7 of 317 viii Contents 3. Mam Jehovah’s Witnesses: New Religious Identities and Rejection of the Nation 81 In Search of Paradise 83 Everyday Life at Las Ceibas 87 The Strength of Utopia and Antinational Discourse 90 Different Contexts, Different Identities 95 4. From Mestizo Mexico to Multicultural Mexico: Indigenismo in the Sierra Madre 100 Two Struggling Perspectives 102 From San Cristóbal to Pátzcuaro 105 Participative Indigenismo 110 The CCI Mam-Mochó-Cakchiquel 114 Third Border Crossing. Don Eugenio: ‘‘Rescuing’’ Mam Culture 122 5. Mam Dance Groups: New Cultural Identities and the Performance of the Past 129 The Mam Supreme Council 130 Mam Dances 133 Memory and Performance of Everyday Life 137 Dispute in the Construction of Mam Traditions 151 Fourth Border Crossing. Doña Luz: Organizing for Women’s Rights 156 6. Organic Growers: Agro-ecological Catholicism and the Invention of Traditions 161 The Foranía de la Sierra: The New Social Ministry 163 Globalization and Organic Markets: Mam Identity and Agro-ecological Discourses 169 New Cultural Discourses and the Reinvention of Mam Utopia 174 Collective Reflection and New Spaces of Organization 178 Mam Women and Gender Demands 181 7. From PRONASOL to the Zapatista Uprising 187 Salinismo: The Administration’s Two-faced Policy 188 PRONASOL Indigenismo 194 The Impact of the Zapatista Rebellion on the Life of Mam Peasants 203 Claiming the Power to Name: The Struggle for Autonomy 214 The Voices of Women 219 Again a Two-faced Policy: Economic Aid and Paramilitarization 224 Conclusion 233 Notes 243 Glossary 257 Bibliography 261 Index 279 Tseng 2001.4.30 17:41 DST:103 6289 Hernandez / HISTORIES AND STORIES FROM CHIAPAS / sheet 8 of 317 ...