{"product_id":"in-the-name-of-el-pueblo-place-community-and-the-politics-of-history-in-yucatn-9780822347279","title":"In the Name of El Pueblo: Place  Community  and the Politics of History in Yucatn","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe term el pueblo is used throughout Latin America  referring alternately to small towns  to community  or to the people as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexicos Yucatn peninsula  Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. Eiss focuses on working-class indigenous and mestizo populations  examining how those groups negotiated the meaning of el pueblo among themselves and in their interactions with outsiders  including landowners  activists  and government officials. Combining extensive archival and ethnographic research  he describes how residents of the region have laid claim to el pueblo in varied ways  as exemplified in communal narratives recorded in archival documents  in the performance of plays and religious processions  and in struggles over land  politics  and the built environment. Eiss demonstrates that while el pueblo is used throughout the hemisphere  the term is given meaning and power through the ways it is imagined and constructed in local contexts. Moreover  he reveals el pueblo to be a concept that is as historical as it is political. It is in the name of el pueblorather than class  race  or nationthat inhabitants of northwestern Yucatn stake their deepest claims not only to social or political rights  but over history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647591178293,"sku":"ByrdShop_082234727X","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822347279.jpg?v=1781694696","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/in-the-name-of-el-pueblo-place-community-and-the-politics-of-history-in-yucatn-9780822347279","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}