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Citizeii'Breadwinners and Vagabond'Soldiers: Military Recruitment in Early Republican Southern Mexico

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This article is ahout the village-internal politics of military recruitment in the largely indigenous Mixteca mountair\s in Oaxaca, in the southwest of Mexico, in the first decades after independence. While Indians had not been allowed to serve in New Spdn's armed forces in the late colony, in the new repuhlic the requirement that communities send some of their merr\bers for armed service became one of the principal denumds iry which the state inserted itself in locd life. The article argues that the politics of recruitment played a crudd role in bed forms of Mexican state formation. On die one hand, in petitions protesting their recruitment it forced indigenous commoners and their families to adopt a language of citizenship that abstracted notions of male individudity as expressed through hard labor and patdarchd responsibility from the communal contexts that had evnbedded the political self .Representation of indigenous villagers in the colonial period. On the other hand, it gave rise toa discourse of exclusion that equated recruitment and, by extension, the military with wrong-doing,
vagabondage, arui crirr\e. This discourse powerfully contributed to the categorical division between civilian and military life that became so pronounced a feature of postcolorúd Mexican society, while at the same time giving army deserters, prevented from returning to their home towns by the stigma of soldiery, little chance but to redly join the ranks of vagabonds or bandits that became such an acutely felt threat to the legd sovereignty of the new ruition.

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Judul Seri

Joumd of Social History

No. Panggil

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: Oxford University Press., 2013

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Joumd of Social History vol. 46 no. 4 (2013), pp. 953-970

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English

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POLITIK MILITER

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