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Armstrong-Fumero, Fernando.

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Before there was culture here: Vernacular discourse on modernity in Yucatan, Mexico.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Before there was culture here: Vernacular discourse on modernity in Yucatan, Mexico./
Author:	Armstrong-Fumero, Fernando.
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Paulla Ebron.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3267455
ISBN:	9780549061359

Before there was culture here: Vernacular discourse on modernity in Yucatan, Mexico.
Armstrong-Fumero, Fernando.

Before there was culture here: Vernacular discourse on modernity in Yucatan, Mexico. - 386 p.

Adviser: Paulla Ebron.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2007.

This doctoral dissertation is a study of changes and continuities in vernacular discourse on culture and modernity in rural Maya-speaking communities in the Mexican state of Yucatan. I place special emphasis on a contrast between a way of talking about culture and modernity that emerged in tangent with a series of statist institutions in the first half of the twentieth century, and more contemporary tendencies with roots in the last three decades. Between the 1920s and 1950s, populist political parties, rural schools and a bureaucracy associated with a national-level agrarian reform disseminated a discourse that equated culture with assimilation into a homogenenous, Spanish-speaking society. Though this is still a common way to refer to "culture" in the rural communities that I studied, it is increasingly common to hear references to "the Maya culture" as a unique local heritage exemplified by the Yucatec Maya language and traditional peasant customs.

ISBN: 9780549061359Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Before there was culture here: Vernacular discourse on modernity in Yucatan, Mexico.
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520 $a This shift in vernacular discourse is consistent with a broader change in Mexico's cultural policy from an emphasis on the assimilation of indigenous ethnic groups to an official multiculturalism. It also reflects the expansion of a regional tourist market that turned "The Maya Culture" into a valuable commodity, just as peasant agriculture declined as a viable means of subsistence. However, a closer look at the "everyday" ways in which people in these communities talk about "the Maya culture" also reveals a series of strong continuities with forms of local identity rooted in institutions that emerged early in the twentieth century. In particular, narratives and performances by which people assert collective rights as representatives of a regional ethnic group bear strong formal similarities to the forms of collective identity and subject positions assumed by an earlier generation before representatives of the agrarian reform. These continuities have important implications for broader understandings of how elements of a political culture with roots in a particular social and historical context can continue to influence how local communities interact with the state even after a broad transformation in formal state institutions and official policies.
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