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…
