Folkloric Poverty

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Nationalist Indian in a Neoliberal Age

1 The Anti-Quincentenary Campaign in Guerrero, Mexico: Indigenous Identity and the Dismantling of the Myth of the Revolution

2 Indigenista Dreams of the Mexican Indian

3 Indian Populists: The Indigenous Movement and theGuerrero Council, 1991–2000

4 Opportunities and Obstacles: Contextualizing the Guerrero Council’s Work in the 1990s

Conclusion: The Exhaustion of the Indigenous Movement: What Comes Next?

References

Index

“Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez has written a highly readable and lucid account of the rise of one regional indigenous movement organization, the Guerrero Council 500 Years of Resistance, and its subsequent decline, mirroring the general fortunes of Mexico’s Indian movement more broadly.”

—Shannan L. Mattiace, The Americas