The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua

by Les W. Field

In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity and analyzes the new forms of social movement that have distinguished late-twentieth-century Nicaragua. As a framework for these analytic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322889
• ISBN13: 9780822322887
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"