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Post‐Sandinista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua
Author(s) -
Field Les
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.431
Subject(s) - indigenous , ethnic group , identity (music) , ethnology , gender studies , latin americans , state (computer science) , anthropology , sociology , history , political science , law , art , aesthetics , algorithm , computer science , ecology , biology
The meanings of the ethnic labels Indian and mestizo in Latin America are often treated as stable, bounded, and clearly marked by anthropologists, nationalists, and indigenous intellectuals alike. In Nicaragua, the post‐Sandinista emergence of a discourse of indigenous identity in the western region, where successive state elites have considered that identity erased, underscores the dynamic mutability of both indigenous and mestizo ethnicities. This reconsideration derives from dialogue between anthropological analysis and an indigenous intellectual involved in organizing in the western region.