The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History by Joanna Crow (review)
roots. After reading this book, one is no longer surprised that Yaquis appear so often in the historical record as both rebels and imperial solders. Nor is one surprised that the Yaquis of the twentieth century could be first hated by the Porfirian regime and later favored by Cárdenas; enslaved and then emancipated; and reviled and finally redeemed in the eyes of the central state. Folsom shows us that these more recent events belong to a much longer and deeper history of Yaqui pragmatism and survival.