Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940

by Nathaniel Morris

The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the D az dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense of their political autonomy, or inspired by a nationalist desire to forge a new Mexico. However, in the Gran Nayar, a rugged expanse of mountains and canyons, the story was more complex, as the region's four Indigenous peoples fought both for and against the revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816541027
• ISBN13: 9780816541027
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"