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Where the River Ends
Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta
Taschenbuch von Shaylih Muehlmann
Sprache: Englisch

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Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 percent of the water from the Colorado is diverted before it reaches Mexico. The remaining water is increasingly directed to the manufacturing industry in Tijuana and Mexicali. Since 1993, the Mexican government has denied the Cucapá people fishing rights on environmental grounds. While the Cucapá have continued to fish in the Gulf of California, federal inspectors and the Mexican military are pressuring them to stop. The government maintains that the Cucapá are not sufficiently "indigenous" to warrant preferred fishing rights. Like many indigenous people in Mexico, most Cucapá people no longer speak their indigenous language; they are highly integrated into nonindigenous social networks. Where the River Ends is a moving look at how the Cucapá people have experienced and responded to the diversion of the Colorado River and the Mexican state's attempts to regulate the environmental crisis that followed.
Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 percent of the water from the Colorado is diverted before it reaches Mexico. The remaining water is increasingly directed to the manufacturing industry in Tijuana and Mexicali. Since 1993, the Mexican government has denied the Cucapá people fishing rights on environmental grounds. While the Cucapá have continued to fish in the Gulf of California, federal inspectors and the Mexican military are pressuring them to stop. The government maintains that the Cucapá are not sufficiently "indigenous" to warrant preferred fishing rights. Like many indigenous people in Mexico, most Cucapá people no longer speak their indigenous language; they are highly integrated into nonindigenous social networks. Where the River Ends is a moving look at how the Cucapá people have experienced and responded to the diversion of the Colorado River and the Mexican state's attempts to regulate the environmental crisis that followed.
Über den Autor

Shaylih Muehlmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations and Maps ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. "Listen for When Your Get There": Topologies of Invisibility on the Colorado River 25

2. The Fishing Conflict and the Making and Unmaking of Indigenous Authenticity 55

3. "What Else Can I Do with a Boat and No Nets?" Ideologies of Work and the Alternatives at Home 83

4. Mexican Machismo and a Woman's Worth 118

5. "Spread Your Ass Cheeks": And Other Things That Shouldn't Get Said in Indigenous Languages 146

Conclusions 171

Notes 181

References 189

Index 215
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822354451
ISBN-10: 0822354454
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Muehlmann, Shaylih
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Shaylih Muehlmann
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2013
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 106225866
Über den Autor

Shaylih Muehlmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations and Maps ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. "Listen for When Your Get There": Topologies of Invisibility on the Colorado River 25

2. The Fishing Conflict and the Making and Unmaking of Indigenous Authenticity 55

3. "What Else Can I Do with a Boat and No Nets?" Ideologies of Work and the Alternatives at Home 83

4. Mexican Machismo and a Woman's Worth 118

5. "Spread Your Ass Cheeks": And Other Things That Shouldn't Get Said in Indigenous Languages 146

Conclusions 171

Notes 181

References 189

Index 215
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822354451
ISBN-10: 0822354454
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Muehlmann, Shaylih
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Shaylih Muehlmann
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2013
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 106225866
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