{"id":18926,"date":"2011-12-12T01:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18926"},"modified":"2011-12-12T01:48:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:48:42","slug":"to-die-in-this-way-nicaraguan-indians-and-the-myth-of-mestizaje-1880-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18926","title":{"rendered":"To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Catalog\/ViewProduct.php?productid=108\" target=\"_blank\">To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Duke University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1998<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n11 b&amp;w photographs, 2 maps<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~alldrp\/members\/gould.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey L. Gould<\/a><\/strong>, Rudy Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Catalog\/ViewProduct.php?productid=108\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Assets\/Books\/978-0-8223-2098-2_pr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, <em>To Die in This Way<\/em> reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially \u201cforgotten\u201d indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that <em>mestizaje<\/em>\u2014a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity\u2014involved a decades-long process of myth building.<\/p>\n<p>Through interviews with indigenous peoples and records of the elite discourse that suppressed the expression of cultural differences and rationalized the destruction of Indian communities, Gould tells a story of cultural loss. Land expropriation and coerced labor led to cultural alienation that shamed the indigenous population into shedding their language, religion, and dress. Beginning with the 1870s, <strong>Gould historicizes the forces that prompted a collective movement away from a strong identification with indigenous cultural heritage to an \u201cacceptance\u201d of a national mixed-race identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from the national memory, <em>To Die in This Way<\/em> critiques the enterprise of third world nation-building and thus marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history that will also interest anthropologists and students of social and cultural historians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&amp;w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,21,459,8,17,3015,394],"tags":[302,8669,8668,8667],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-socialscience","tag-duke-university-press","tag-jeffrey-gould","tag-jeffrey-l-gould","tag-nicaragua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}