(Duke University Press) The term “el pueblo” is a versatile term — used throughout Latin America to refer to small towns, community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. He focuses on working-class indigenous and mestizo populations, exploring how they negotiated this term’s meanings among themselves and in their interactions with outsiders. Eiss is an associate professor of anthropology and history and the director of the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University.
