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Saturday, 21 November 2009 07:18

"Yo Soy Nativo De Aquí": The Ambiguities Of Race And Indigeneity In Oaxacan Craft Tourism


Ronda Brulotte, 2009


This article examines theories of race and indigeneity in the context of craft tourism in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The region is prized by tourists for its archaeological remains and locally produced handicrafts, both heavily marketed by the state and private industry as indigenous material culture. This study argues that Oaxacan artisan communities do not uniformly express or experience indigenous identities, despite state and tourist discourses that attempt to racialize them as "Indian." That artisans both reproduce and refute such categorizations highlights the ambiguities and problems associated with ethnoracial classifications in Mexico. At the same time, the conflation of artisanry with indigeneity in the tourism market may prove a generative force in artisans' self-identifications and articulations with others.

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; 14(2): 457 - 482

Este artículo examina los debates sobre raza e indigeneidad en el contexto del turismo artesanal de Oaxaca al sur de México. La región es muy apreciada por los turistas debido a la riqueza de sus ruinas arqueológicas y la producción local de artesanías, ambas profusamente comercializadas por el estado y la industria privada como expresiones materiales de la cultura indígena. Este estudio muestra que las comunidades de artesanos de Oaxaca no viven ni se expresan una identidad indígena de forma homogénea a pesar de que los discursos estatales y de turismo intentan racializarlos bajo el denominador genérico de "lo indio." Los artesanos reproducen y rechazan estas categorías, poniendo en evidencia las ambigüedades y los problemas asociados a las clasificaciones etnoraciales en México. Al mismo tiempo, el que la producción artesanal y el ser indígena se utilicen como términos intercambiables en el mercado del turismo puede transformarse en un recurso para los artesanos tanto para la generación de nuevos polos de autoidentificación como de espacios de articulación con otros.


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