Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán

Gabbert, Wolfgang

doi:10.1017/9781108666930

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“…Agro-industrial units of production known as haciendas emerged. They increasingly encroached on indigenous communities, grabbing land by legal and illegal means in a wave of expansion whose epicentre was the city of Mérida (Gabbert, 2019;Rugeley, 1996). This was an example of institutional displacement connected to industrial capitalism whereby a set of new institutions effectively replaces the old set; it is typical of colonization and revolution (Tsai, 2016: 273).…”

Section: The First Liberal Dispossession Period (1760s-1930s)mentioning

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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Mendoza Fuente,

Marin

2024

Development and Change

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This article seeks to understand why community forestry enterprises in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico are losing ground, while middlemen and manufacturers are regaining control over forestry resources. It focuses on the case of the Ejido San Felipe Oriente where an NGO codesigned a commercialization platform with the objective of bringing together local cooperatives to negotiate in the market from a position of strength. The project was hampered by an internal rupture in the ejido; in investigating this rupture, the authors use the concept of institutional bricolage to understand local power struggles, and the theory of gradual change to search for historical causal mechanisms. They find that the proximate causes of the rupture were family rivalries, suspicions of embezzlement, unfair exclusions, and the disruption of customary practices regarding the distribution of monetary benefits. However, historical continuities lay beneath the power struggle: ejidos in the Yucatan Peninsula have used their function as intermediaries to subordinate local interests rather than promote endogenous development. The authors advocate for an institutional design process that takes account of the unconscious and taken‐for‐granted meanings that influence institutional adaptation; they encourage development practitioners promoting community forestry enterprises in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico to address historical continuities in local institutions as a focal target of development interventions.

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Section: The First Liberal Dispossession Period (1760s-1930s)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Mendoza Fuente,

Marin

2024

Development and Change

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“…The Caste War was one of the most successful indigenous uprisings in the history of the Americas and led to the existence of a Maya state that remained semi-autonomous for over 50 years. Yet, the Caste War was a war of factions-Maya against Mexican, Maya against British, Mexican against British, and Maya against Maya [21]. Inhabited by Maya peoples for well over three thousand years, the Yucatan had become a political and economic focus for the Spanish colonial powers centered in Merida.…”

Section: The Caste War (1847-1901)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Maya of the Past, Present, and Future: Heritage, Anthropological Archaeology, and the Study of the Caste War of Yucatan

Morgan

Leventhal

2020

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This paper examines the relationship between the past, present, and future of Maya heritage and archaeology. We trace some of the background of Maya archaeology and Maya heritage studies in order to understand the state of the field today. We examine and demonstrate how an integrated and collaborative community heritage project, based in Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico, has developed and changed over time in reaction to perceptions about heritage and identity within the local community. We also describe the many sub-programs of the Tihosuco Heritage and Community Development Project, showcasing our methods and outcomes, with the aim of presenting this as a model to be used by other anthropologists interested in collaborative heritage practice.

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“…During the Caste War, in response to the needs of the resistance, argues Reed (2001 [1964]), a religious cult to the Talking Cross—the Cruzo’ob—emerged. “Cruzo’ob’ became synonymous with the resistance; today many descendants self‐identify as masewalo’b (Gabbert 2000; see also Gabbert 2019) and some young people prefer it as a self‐identifier to “Maya” (Rhodes 2018). The areas dominated by the Cruzo’ob coincide with Briceño Chel’s and Pfeiler’s descriptions of where jach maaya is thought to be or have been spoken.…”

Section: Linguistic and Social Differentiation In Mayamentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 18 18 See Bracamonte y Sosa and Lizama Quijano (2003); Farriss (1984); Gabbert (2000, 2019); Lizama Quijano (2000); Reed ([1964]2001); Stephens (2017). …”

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Dually Authenticated and Doubly Modern: Institutionalizing jach maaya in the Yucatan Today

Rhodes¹

2020

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Linguistic purist ideologies circulate widely on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Yucatec Maya speakers differentiate a "pure," "authentic" Maya located in the past from a "mixed," "corrupted" Maya located in the present. Today, the ideologically "pure," "authentic" Maya of the past, is gaining a new center of authenticity in the present through its increasing institutionalization. This project is doubly modern in its temporal rupture, which engages the past as authentic and enduring, and rupture with society, which rejects vernacular Maya for institutionally authoritative language practices, produced largely through the science of linguistics. Authenticating jach maaya today through increased institutionalization holds implications for Maya speakers' livelihoods, vernacular language practices, and understandings of Maya-ness, as well as for the future of these. [linguistic purism, institutionalization, language ideologies, Yucatec Maya, jach maaya]

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Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán

Cited by 24 publications

References 61 publications

Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Maya of the Past, Present, and Future: Heritage, Anthropological Archaeology, and the Study of the Caste War of Yucatan

Dually Authenticated and Doubly Modern: Institutionalizing jach maaya in the Yucatan Today

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