With stunning detail and attention to its significance, Claudia García presents the construction and reconstruction of citizenship of the Miskitu group, also known as Miskito or Misquito, of the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The author’s principal theme is the social construction of Miskito ethnicity beginning with the group’s intensive contact with the Old World in the 1630s and continuing to the 1930s. The ethnic construct of citizenship is based on the concept of an “open” culture that is profoundly influenced by successive interaction with the Other, in this case, contact with the British and Spaniards in the Caribbean area, and especially with their ideas and lifestyles.
The theoretical and methodological concept is based on the idea of ethnic citizenship. It is defined with precision and well laid out in eight chapters, each with a different focus on constructive aspects of ethnicity as well as the central points...
