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Consuming Histories

The Return of the Indian in Neoliberal El Salvador

Michigan State University, USA

This article investigates the sudden rise of indigenous activist politics after the end of El Salvador's civil war in 1992. It argues that an important unspoken element of what returns with the Indian is the revolutionary desire that animated the social struggles of the civil war and before. Approaching the question of Salvadoran indigenous activism this way directs attention away from risky practices of defining authenticity to consider instead the complicated forms of subjectivity through which people live in the racialized space of Salvadoran mestizaje.

Key Words: El Salvador • indigenous politics • loss • mestizaje • mourning • revolutionary desire

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