BookTiempo de mitos y carnaval: indios, campesinos y revoluciones de Felipe Carrillo ...
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Title
- Tiempo de mitos y carnaval: indios, campesinos y revoluciones de Felipe Carrillo Puerto a Evo Morales.
Published
- México: Itaca: PRD DF, 2011.
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HLAS annotation
- This innovative book seeks to reanimate the tired Mexican left by turning attention to one past and one contemporary case of peasant-indigenous uprisings that transformed society, the first presented being the Yucatec Maya socialist movement of Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1915-24) and the other the recent turn toward the highland indigenous peasants in Bolivia provoked by the rise of president Evo Morales, himself an indigenous peasant union organizer. To accomplish this in both cases, says the author, the leaders employed ancient myths and "carnival" - and it leads the author to conclude that for political action to overthrow oppression, there needs to be a "carnivalization" of politics. This counterhegemonic move rejects the traditional politics of the left for something more syncretic that reaches into the indigenous undercurrent running through the Americas. Oddly, the other supportive case of Zapatismo in Chiapas is not mentioned.
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Description
- 241 p.: bibl.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
- 9786077957126
- 6077957127
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HLAS contributor
- Duncan Earle