This territory forms the heart of their economic and spiritual lives. But indigenous land struggle is a central fact of Mexican history, and in this fascinating new work Paul Liffman expands our understanding of it....Read More »
Mexican independence also annulled the Spanish-chartered indigenous
communities in the mountains, which were ... Liffman, Paul M. Huichol Territory
and the Mexican Nation: Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty
Claims....Read More »
Lewis, Stephen E. “Mexico's National Indigenist Institute and the Negotiation of
Applied Anthropology in Highland Chiapas, 1951–1954.” Ethnohistory 55, no. 4 (
2008):609–32. Liffman, Paul. Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation: ......Read More »
The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition Andrew Roth-Seneff, Robert V
. Kemper, Julie Adkins ... Hans Roskamp is a professor of ethnohistory at the
Colegio de Michoacán and a member of the Mexican National System of
Researchers. ... in the Huichol community of San Andrés Cohamiata, and has
recently published Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation: Indigenous Ritual,
Land Conflict, ......Read More »
Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation : Indigenous Ritual , Land Conflict , and
Sovereignty Claims . Paul M. Liffman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2011
, 296 pp . $ 55.00 , paper . The contemporary ethnography of the indigenous ......Read More »
o 17 : HUICHOL RELIGION AND THE MEXICAN STATE Reflections on
Ethnocide and Cultural Survival SALOMÓN ... In contrast , so far as the national
society is concerned , the Huichol territory is fragmented and divided into different
ejidos ......Read More »
The Cora and Huichol Indians Near the border between the States of Jalisco and
Nayarit live some 15 , 000 ... The habitat , geographic location , types of
settlement , and territorial organization of both groups are illustrated by means of
......Read More »
The Huichol , by contrast , are able to enjoy their maize - based diet because of
their special relationship to the deities . ... Not only are they politically fragmented
at the local and municipal level , but community - held territories are split between
different states ... Nacional Indigenista ( INI ) established its Cora - Huichol
Centre to coordinate services and integrate the area into the Mexican nation -
state ; 2 ......Read More »
... with ties to the nation - state we know today as Mexico : the web of pilgrimage
trails that tie together the territory of the Quechan , the salt pilgrimage of the
Tohono O ' odham , and the peyote hunt of the Huichol . These examples are
meant to ......Read More »
As Seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City Ignacio Bernal,
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Román ... The Cora and Huichol
Indians Near the border between the States of Jalisco and Nayarit live some 15 ,
000 ... The habitat , geographic location , types of settlement , and territorial
organization of both groups are illustrated by means of photographs and
coloured maps ....Read More »
