Indigenous Citizenship between Borderlands and Enclaves

Elections in Talamanca, Costa Rica, 1880-1913

Bibliographic Data

ID2806028
AuthorsAlejandra Boza Villarreal (0000-0003-3768-9828, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume96
Issue4
Pages641-668
Publication date2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182168-3677627
OpenAlexW2533623589
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

In Costa Rican historiography, Talamanca has often been considered one of the country's most isolated areas for two main reasons: it is a border region with a significant indigenous population within a nation that has defined itself racially as white, and its history as a banana enclave, areas supposedly characterized by a lack of significant economic and political connections with the nation-states that housed them. However, this article demonstrates that by the nineteenth century's end, Talamanca's indigenous residents were actively participating in one of the nation's quintessential political exercises: elections. These populations were thus much more connected to the Costa Rican nation than the literature has hitherto acknowledged. I examine how indigenous people integrated into and participated in the Costa Rican electoral system. The case of Talamanca helps illuminate little-known features of enclave regions and the political life of Latin American indigenous communities during the first century after independence

Citizenship · Ethnology · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Population · Puerto rican · Sociology · White (mutation) · Cuban History and Society · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America

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