{"id":3789,"date":"2009-12-12T00:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2010-10-11T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:03:37","slug":"are-mestizos-hybrids-the-conceptual-politics-of-andean-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0022216X05009004\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journal of Latin American Studies<br \/>\nVolume 37, Issue 02<br \/>\nMay 2005<br \/>\npp 259-284<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0022216X05009004\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S0022216X05009004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.ucdavis.edu\/people\/marisol-de-la-cadena-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marisol de la Cadena<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through a genealogical analysis of the terms <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizo<\/a> and <em>mestizaje<\/em>, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid. On the one hand they house an empirical hybridity, built upon eighteenth and nineteenth century racial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxonomy\" target=\"_blank\">taxonomies<\/a> and according to which \u2018mestizos\u2019 are non-indigenous individuals, the result of biological or cultural mixtures. Yet, mestizos\u2019 genealogy starts earlier, when \u2018mixture\u2019 denoted transgression of the rule of faith, and its statutes of purity. Within this taxonomic regime mestizos could be, at the same time, indigenous. Apparently dominant, racial theories sustained by scientific knowledge mixed with, (rather than cancel) previous faith based racial taxonomies. \u2018Mestizo\u2019 thus houses a conceptual hybridity \u2013 the mixture of two classificatory regimes \u2013 which reveals subordinate alternatives for mestizo subject positions, including forms of indigeneity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.ucdavis.edu\/people\/marisol-de-la-cadena-1\/Are%20mestizos%20Hybrids.Published.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017\/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,125,394],"tags":[152,1479,1478],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-socialscience","tag-hybridity","tag-journal-of-latin-american-studies","tag-marisol-de-la-cadena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","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=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}