Tilley Virginia

Seeing Indians : a study of race, nation, and power in El Salvador / Virginia Q. Tilley. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005. - xviii, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-289) and index.

Introduction: A conqueror's vision -- "There are no Indians in El Salvador" : indigeneity, the state, and power -- El Salvador's ethnic landscape/s -- "What is an Indian?" -- In the shadow of the Maya -- Remembering Cuscatlá® -- From colonial rule to independence -- The Matanza : genocide, ethnocide-- auto-ethnocide? -- Assimilated or erased? : ethnocide by statistics -- Being mestizo: the twisted logics of Mestizaje -- Celebrating Indians.

0826339255 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Indians of Central America--History--El Salvador
Indians of Central America--Ethnic identity--El Salvador
Indians of Central America--Cultural assimilation--El Salvador
Ethnic conflict--El Salvador


El Salvador--Race relations
El Salvador--Ethnic relations

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