Zapotec Renaissance: Ethnic Politics and Cultural Revivalism in Southern Mexico

by Howard Campbell

"In this outstanding ethnography, Campbell explores how the construction of identity and the politics of ethnicity provide the Zapotec a sense of local power and independence. Focuses on the important role of indigenous intellectuals and the movement forlocal rule that has long consumed the community and its population"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

327 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Texas at El Paso