Communities Making Histories. A Review of Paul K. Eiss’ <em>In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán</em> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.)

Authors

  • John Tutino Georgetown University

Keywords:

Yucatán, Hunucmá, place, community, politics

Abstract

Paul Eiss has produced a probing history of communities and debates about community in the Hunucmá region of northwest Yucatán. In revealing episodes, the study extends from the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary times. The analysis is innovative in important ways, notably by revealing communities’ often conflictive participations in key local and regional developments and by exploring their often contested constructions of their own historical understandings. Within that project, Eiss pays particular attention to exploring the contested meanings of the idea of El Pueblo—which in Spanish blends notions of the people and the community in ways that makes it a common referent, often debated, and always changing.

Author Biography

John Tutino, Georgetown University

John Tutino es profesor y docente en historia mexicana y americana en la Universidad Georgetown. Es autor de From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 (Princeton, 1986) y Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajio and Spanish North America (Duke, 2011).

Published

2012-01-31

How to Cite

Tutino, J. (2012). Communities Making Histories. A Review of Paul K. Eiss’ <em>In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán</em> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 9(2), 391–402. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/247

Issue

Section

Reviews: Culture, Politics and History in Mexico