Indians Into Mexicans - 9780292724969

Indians Into MexicansHistory and Identity in a Mexican Town\nAuthor(s): David Frye\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292724969, 978-0292724969\nSynopsis\nThe people of Mexquitic, a town in the state of San Luis Potos in rural northeastern Mexico, have redefined their sense of identity from \""Indian\"" to \""Mexican\"" over the last two centuries. In this ethnographic and historical study of Mexquitic, David Frye explores why and how this transformation occurred, thereby increasing our understanding of the cultural creation of \""Indianness\"" throughout the Americas.\n\nFrye focuses on the local embodiments of national and regional processes that have transformed rural \""Indians\"" into modern \""Mexicans\"": parish priests, who always arrive with personal agendas in addition to their common ideological baggage; local haciendas; and local and regional representatives of royal and later of national power a.