Playing mestizo

Festivity, language, and theatre in Yucatán, Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID2178032
AuthorsPaul K Ei, Paul K Eiss (Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume11
Issue3
Pages242-265
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17442222.2016.1214366
OpenAlexW2525102352
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

This article takes Yucatán’s ‘Monument to Mestizaje’ as the entry point to an analysis of mestizo culture in Yucatán in the 19th and 20th centuries. Providing three genealogies of mestizaje in Yucatán – focused on festivity, language, and theatre – this article takes a historical and performative approach; it focuses neither on the workings of ‘mestizo’ social identity nor on ideologies of mestizaje, but on the performance of mestizo acts in particular historical contexts and in politically charged ways. In festive dances, the speaking of ‘mixed’ Maya, and racial impersonations performed on stages of theatre or politics, Yucatecans enact mestizaje in ways that sometimes ratify hegemonic racial discourses, but other times leave them in pieces

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Hegemony · Ideology · Maya · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies

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