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Social Categories, Ethnicity and the State in Yucatán, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2001

WOLFGANG GABBERT
WOLFGANG GABBERT
Affiliation:
Wolfgang Gabbert is a Lecturer at the Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin.
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Abstract

This article discusses the development of social categories and ethnicity in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico, since the Conquest in the sixteenth century. Based on the Yucatec case, it demonstrates that ethnicity is not a ubiquitous form of social organisation, but rather a historical process related to specific techniques of social distinction. It argues that the starting point for the analysis of ethnicity should not be ethnic collectives, but instead the ways in which individuals use ethnic categories in social interaction.

Keywords

YucatánMayaethnicitysocial inequalitystate
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 459 - 484
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Research for this article was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.