In the name of el Pueblo : place, community, and the politics of history in Yucatán /

Eiss, Paul K.

In the name of el Pueblo : place, community, and the politics of history in Yucatán / Paul K. Eiss. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010. - xv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Latin America otherwise . - Latin America otherwise. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.

The last cacique : the archival landscapes of Kah, Comâan, and Pueblo -- King of the forest : civilization, savagery, and the annals of history -- Hunucmâa's Zapata : objects of insurgency and auguries of liberation -- The redemption : subjects of revolution and objects of governance -- The general and the beast : murder, martyrdom, and the bones of el Pueblo -- The president's dead hand : surveys, maps, and the measure of el Pueblo -- The war of the eggs : tragedy, redemption, and the carnivalesque -- By the Virgin's grace : the archival landscapes of miracle, money, and memory -- Poet, prophet, and politician : forgetting and remembering Hunucmâa.

9780822347118 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822347279 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009051108


Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History.
Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Social conditions.
Yucatán (México)--Historia.

112 F 1376 / E36i 2010

972/.65