| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930. By Rebecca Earle. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. viii, 367 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4063-8. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4084-3.)

Rebecca Earle has produced an imaginative work on Spanish American Creole visions of "nation" from independence to the rise of indigenismo (a sympathetic awareness and advancement of the Indian) in the 1920s and the advent of the mestizaje nation-building myth. This singular overview, based on history, literature, art, and material culture, shows the changing place of the pre-Hispanic past in the construction of a national sense of self in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, and Bolivia. This cultural and intellectual history traces how national spokespersons sometimes embraced and sometimes rejected ancient indigenous civilizations, but often presented contemporary native populations as a problem. In Peru, this idea has been summed up as "Inca sí, Indio no" (Inca yes, Indian no).

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