Constructing Local Identities in a Revolutionary Nation
The cultural politics of the artisan class in Nicaragua, 1979-90
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467213 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L W Field (0000-0002-2537-4995, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 786-806 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00070 |
| OpenAlex | W1991082717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 35 |
During the Nicaraguan Revolution (1979-90), the Sandinista government was simultaneously committed to a politics of class consciousness and a nation-building project informed by an indigenista ideology. Western Nicaraguan artisan communities, a heterogeneous social group with variable and distinctive cultural practices, responded to the Sandinista Revolution by creating a union that represented artisans' interests in terms of class rather than ethnicity, which has historically been a marker of subordinate status. Through an analysis of a particular history in which class identity became salient, in this article I stress not only the fluidity of local identities, but also underscore ways in which anthropology may be complicit in nation-building projects that maintain the subaltern position of peoples among whom anthropologists work
Aesthetics · Class (philosophy · Class consciousness · Consciousness · Elite · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Identity politics · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2017 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |