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This seminar is intended mainly for anthropology majors and graduate students but is open to all advanced students in the social sciences. The particular topic changes each year and is intended to reflect student interests. This semester we will examine the relationship between indigenous peoples, nationalism, and national conflicts in Mexico and Central America. We will begin by profiling colonization and colonial rule, and then move to considering state formation and current issues of politics and race, nationalism and ethnicity. We will focus on the ways in which nationalist rhetorics, practices and symbols have constructed, encompassed and marginalized those considered indigenous, and on the meanings indigenous peoples give to their own pos itions and indentities as Indians. Areas of inquiry will include the Miskito Indians and the nation-state in Nicaragua, the position of Guatemalan Indians in national political conflicts, and the recent Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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