If indigenous people lived in what is now Mexico long before Europeans arrived, asks Mattiace (political science, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania), why did it t... » 

If indigenous people lived in what is now Mexico long before Europeans arrived, asks Mattiace (political science, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania), why did it take them until 1994 to join together on the national level around a common cultural identity? Her research, which combines political science and anthropology, focuses on the politicization o «