Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca

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185 Index Acteal, hamlet in Chenalhó, Chiapas, 3–4, 33 agrarian disputes, viii, 5, 35, 39, 137, 139, 144, 166 agriculture, 6, 30, 35, 38, 61, 73, 137 alcoholism, 29, 31 alebrijes (demons). See animals, carved “ancestors” weaving design, 11–13, 22, 26, 30–31, 33, 71, 173 animals, carved, ix–xii, 22, 61–73; history, 63 anthropologists, 7, 17, 97–98, 100 APPO, 151–52, 155–58, 160, 166 aprons worn in public markets, 104–5, 108–12, 130, 163 ARIPO (Artesanías y Industrias Populares del Estado de Oaxaca), 147–49 Asemblea de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca). See APPO authenticity, 5, 9–10, 14–15, 19–23, 41, 45, 52, 55, 70–71, 74, 94, 97–100, 106–7, 119, 121, 130, 135, 141, 147–48, 168–69 Aztecs, 36–37, 86–87 balada (music genre), 124–25 balloons, 131–34 banda (music genre), 122, 124–26, 128–29 bands: brass or wind, vii, 79–80, 82, 84, 92, 125, 153, 157; string, 79, 81, 85, 126 Bani Stui Gulal, 90, 94 Barbash, Shepard, xii, 68 baskets. See shopping baskets Bayalemó, 18 Belize, 4 Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, 151 Bochil, 24–25 bootlegging, 5 Caballo Dorado, 129 caciques, 28–29, 33, 139–40 Campeche, 110–11 “Canción Mixteca,” 82 cargo system, 6–7, 29–31, 83, 117 Carmen Alto: fiesta of, 92; preparing ground for People’s Guelaguetza, 153–54, 171 Casa de Artesanias (in San Cristóbal), 11, 20 caste wars, 5 Catholic Action, 29–30 Chamula: Chamulans now living in San Cristóbal, 23–26, 30–31, 117; village life, 6–7, 29–31, 112, 120 Chenalhó, Chiapas, 3, 33 Chiapas: crafts from, xiii, 2–34; 186 index demography and history of, 4–9, 32; landscape, 5 Chibnick, Michael, xii chirimías, 77, 90, 92–93 Ciudad Ixtepec, 87 cochineal, 37–38, 46, 56 codices, 21, 50, 57 Cohen, Erik, 8 condom wrappers, 26 conquistadores, 36–38 copal wood, x Corey, Herbert, 174 corn, as symbol, 13, 26. See also Diosa Centeotl corn goddess. See Diosa Centeotl corridos, 125, 127, 137, 171 Cortés, Hernán, 36–37, 86–87 craft outlets: boutiques, 21–22, 147; cooperatives, 12, 14, 18–19, 21, 29, 31–33, 60, 148–49; governmentsponsored , 19, 147–48; paternalistic, 17, 21, 29, 146–47 crafts: genres not influenced by tourism, 104–21, 130–34, 169; history, 35–39; sales and prices of, viii, 15, 22–23, 27, 32; sizes of, 14, 26, 41, 61, 71, 107, 112, 122; transformation of, 41, 45, 62–63, 70–73, 104–5, 130, 149, 169 craftspersons: daily schedules, 60–61; earnings, 17, 19, 31, 33, 40; family values, 32, 71; financial calculations, 13; memorates associated with sales, 45; sales etiquette, 20, 23, 27, 147; sales intermediaries (middlemen), 19, 21–22, 29, 62, 69, 147; sales strategies, 9, 46–48, 58–60, 69, 107, 169; shows for tourists, 42–44, 46, 51, 70–71; training, 60–61; village life, 73, 171 Cruz, Fidel, xii Culiapan de Guerrero, 87, 166 cultural involution, 16 cumbias norteñas (music subgenre), 125 Dalton Palomo, Margarita, 98, 100 Danza de la Pluma, xi, 86–88, 91, 97–100, 102, 145, 156–59, 162 Day of the Dead, 122–23, 129 de Las Casas, Bartolomé, 38 de los Angeles, José, 47, 52, 55–56, 58–59, 97 Depredador. See Terminator, The design motifs, used in weaving, 12–14, 25, 27, 44–45, 47–53, 55, 57, 70, 72, 118 diamond (universe) weaving pattern, 12–13, 25, 27, 50, 55, 57, 70, 118 Díaz, Porfirio, 5 dichos. See sayings Diosa Centeotl, 77, 89–90, 93–95, 102–3, 157 Disney figurines, 26 dolls, 24, 26 dreams (as a source of or metaphor for creativity), 11, 14, 21, 68–69 dyes, 44, 72; analine, 45; history of, 15; mordants, 15; natural, 15–16, 21, 45, 56–57; omitting the use of, 50, 52, 56, 72; synthetic, 15–16, 57. See also cochineal Eber, Christine, 32 Ejército Popular Revolucionario. See EPR Ejutla de Crespo, 62, 86–87, 95, 166 index 187 “El Jarabe Tapatío,” 93 embroidery, 22 encampment on Oaxaca city’s zócalo, viii, xi, 102–3, 119, 140, 143–45, 151, 166, 171 encomiendas, 37 EPR (Ejército Popular Revolucionario), 140 Escher, M. C., 50, 54 Fernandez, Alejandro, 128–29 Fernandez, Vicente, 128–29 folkloric intensification. See intensification FONART...