The Indian in Latin American History

Resistance, Resilience, and Acculturation

John E. Kicza

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 1999
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461644477
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. They have resisted cultural hegemony with rebellions and have initiated petitions to demand remedies to injustices, while consciously selecting certain aspects of the West to incorporate into their cultures. Leading historians, anthropologists and sociologists examine Indian-Western relationships from the Spaniards' initial contact with the Incas to the cultural interplay of today's Latin America. This revised edition contains four brand new chapters and a revised introduction. The list of suggested readings and films has also been updated.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Editor
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Inca Empire and Its Subject Peoples
• 2 Early Spanish-Indian Accommodation in the Andes
• 3 Persistent Maya Resistance and Cultural Retention in Yucatán
• 4 Cultural Adaptation and Militant Autonomy among the Araucanians of Chile
• 5 Coping in Cuernavaca with the Cultural Conquest
• 6 Negotiating Roots: Indian Migrants in the Lima Valley during the Colonial Period
• 7 Patterns and Variety in Mexican Village Uprisings
• 8 State Power, Indigenous Communities, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala, 1820–1920
• 9 Yaqui Resistance to Mexican Expansion
• 10 Native Cultural Retention and the Struggle for Land in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia
• 11 Ethnic Identity and Its Attributes in a Contemporary Mexican Indian Village
• Glossary
• Suggested Readings
• Suggested Films
• About the Contributors