Creole Neighborhood or Miskito Community?; A Case Study of Identity Politics in a Mosquito Coast Land Dispute

Bibliographic Data

ID19005597
AuthorsBaron L Pineda (Seton Hall University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume6
Issue1
Pages120-155
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1085-7052 • E-ISSN: 1548-7180
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/jlca.2001.6.1.120
OpenAlexW2042347849
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited55

This article represents a case study that illustrates the ways in which the oral traditions of the Mosquito Coast region of Nicaragua, particularly those related to the foundation of the city of Bilwi/Puerto Cabezas, enter into a land dispute that occurred shortly after the electoral defeat of the Sandinista government. An understanding of the details of this dispute that takes place in a period in In which the controversy surrounding ethnic and indigenous identification had receded from its high point in the 1980s, provides insight into the nature of identity politics in the region. Although the case ostensibly concerns a modem land dispute with relatively low stakes, it clearly exposes a broad range of crosscutting contradictions and cleavages within Mosquito Coast and Nicaraguan society. The argument developed here focuses on the importance of incorporating regional and other non‐ethnic units of analysis in the undeistanding of ethnic conflict

Creole language · Ethnic group · Geography · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies in Central America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Ecology

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