Resistencia indígena y discursos racistasuna lectura biopolítica de los mayas yucatecos
- 1 ÁREA DE HISTORIA DE AMÉRICA - UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
ISSN: 2036-0967
Argitalpen urtea: 2012
Zenbakien izenburua: De viajes y viajeros: visiones y representaciones
Alea: 4
Zenbakia: 1
Orrialdeak: 196-214
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Confluenze: Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Laburpena
In this article I propose to analyse the history of Yucatec Maya people from a biopolitical perspective. I study two periods of great importance in Mayan history: first, during the colonial period, the politics of population control and the peculiar geography of Yucatan guide us to explain how the colony was settled there; while the second part discusses the lack of instability of Mayan Indians during Independence, the indigenous resistance that will eventually lead to the 1847 Caste War and its consequence: the sale of Mayan Indians as slaves to Cuba as an alternative to eliminate Indian rebels and to create an imagined nation of Yucatan.