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Product Description Describes how photographs of Indians have influenced the way Native people are viewed in Mexico, and considers how Indians can take control of their own image. From Publishers Weekly At first glance, this volume appears to be just a collection of well-shot photographs, an art book on indigenous life in Mexico, while actually it's a critical analysis of such dreamy images. In three sharply argued essays, authors Armando Bartra (director of the Instituto Maya), Alejandra Moreno Toscano (a journalist), and Elisa Ram¡rez (an anthropology professor) contend that the photographs all taken during the 1980s and early 1990s, chosen for exhibition by Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), reflect a na‹vet‚ that is no longer possible after the Chiapas uprising in 1994. Since then, Mexican dailies have been filled with photographs that show Indians not as the practitioners of a fading lifestyle but as participants in an ongoing and contentious political dialog. Sprinkled with the language of cultural studies "subaltern," "the Other," and so on this book is especially recommended for academic libraries. Marcela Valdes, "Cr¡ticas" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.