This study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vincente Fox. the book focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, a symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans.
Asks how elite native intermediaries conversant in Spanish language, legal rhetoric, and personal demeanor shaped the political and cultural landscape of colonialism.
Asks how elite native intermediaries conversant in Spanish language, legal rhetoric, and personal demeanor shaped the political and cultural landscape of colonialism.
"Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component …
The household and migration -- History, trajectory, and process in Oaxacan migration -- Contemporary migration -- Migration, socioeconomic change, and development -- Nonmigrant households -- Migration in Oaxaca's central valleys and anthropology.
"This book is important to migration studies for a number of reasons. First, I really like the presentation of the complexity of motives for migrants and households. ... Second, the emphasis on the anthropological approach, focusing on a holistic view--community, individual, mig…
The level of organisation required to maintain cohesion in the vast societies we live in today is unprecedented in our past. In this thesis I look into why human societies began to shift from the small-scale groups which characterises the vast majority of human past, into the la…
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
In the early morning hours of June 14th, 2006, Oaxacan state and municipal police advanced upon the twenty-seventh annual teachers union plantón (encampment) in an attempted desalojo (eviction). The following events caught everyone by surprise as multitudes of Oaxacan civil soci…
The purpose of this thesis is to understand the impact of urbanization on the domestic lives of people at the site of Río Viejo in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico during the Terminal Formative period (150 BCE–CE 250). This thesis will present the data generated from excavations directed …
