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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on January 8, 1998. The length of the article is 815 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Justicia y ayuda para los chiapanecos. (indígenas en Chiapas, México)(TT: Justice and help for the people of Chiapas) (TA: indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico)
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 8, 1998
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44Issue: n2325Page: p95(1)

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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd. on April 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1218 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A pro-government paramilitary group reportedly killed 45 indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico, in Dec 1997. Bishop Samuel Ruiz believes this is the 25th such incident since 1993. These massacres are opposed by the Zapatista National Liberation Army, who have encouraged global media attention without being able to consistently protect indigenous people. Liberating autonomous space is rare, if not impossible.

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Title: A virtual killing. (crimes against indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico)
Author: Leanne Reinke
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
Issue: n34Page: p8(2)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1585 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. (se pide una reforma constitucional en México)(TT: The rights of the indigenous people) (TA: a constitutional reform is asked for in Mexico)
Author: Heberto Castillo
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1048Page: p36(3)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on December 28, 1997. The length of the article is 910 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La masacre de Acteal. (la masacre contra indígenas en Chiapas, México)(TT: The Acteal massacre) (TA: the massacre of indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico)
Author: Carlos Montemayor
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 28, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1104Page: p32(2)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on October 16, 1997. The length of the article is 1607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Con los indígenas o contra ellos. (México)(TT: With the indigenous people or againt them)
Author: Alvaro Cepeda Neri
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: October 16, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44Issue: n2313Page: p30(2)

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While King Carlos I of Spain struggled to suppress the Protestant Reformation in the Old World, the Spanish turned to New Spain to promote the Catholic cause, unimpeded by the presence of the "false" Old World religions. To this end, Osowski writes, the Spanish "saw indigenous people as necessary protagonists in the anticipated triumph of the faith." As the conversion of the indigenous people of Mexico proceeded in earnest, Catholic ritual became the medium through which indigenous leaders and Spaniards negotiated colonial hegemony.

Indigenous Miracles is about how the Nahua elite of central Mexico secured political legitimacy through the administration of public rituals centered on miraculous images of Christ the King. Osowski argues that these images were adopted as community symbols and furthermore allowed Nahua leaders to "represent their own kingship," protecting their claims to legitimacy. This legitimacy allowed them to act collectively to prevent the loss of many aspects of their culture. Osowski demonstrates how a shared religion admitted the possibility of indigenous agency and new ethnic identities.

Consulting both Nahuatl and Spanish sources, Osowski strives to fill a gap in the history of the Nahuas from 1760 to 1810, a momentous time when previously sanctioned religious practices were condemned by the viceroys and archbishops of the Bourbon royal dynasty. His approach synthesizes ethnohistory and institutional history to create a fascinating account of how and why the Nahuas protected the practices and symbols they had appropriated under Hapsburg rule. Ultimately, Osowski's account contributes to our understanding of the ways in which indigenous agency was negotiated in colonial Mexico. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Contenido, published by Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. on November 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1562 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chiapas: una coperativa indígena que funciona bien.(México)(TT: Chiapas: a cooperative of indigenous peoples that functions well.)(TA: Mexico)
Author: Andrea Avila
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 98

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This digital document is an article from Fem, published by Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C. on February 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1038 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Como conciencia de la sociedad. (masacre de indígenas en Acteal, Chiapas, México)(TT: Like society's conscience) (TA: massacre of indigenous people in Acteal, Chiapas, México)
Author: Mercedes Charles
Publication: Fem (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1998
Publisher: Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C.
Volume: v22Issue: n179Page: p8(2)

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Las Californias (English: The Californias) was the name given by the Spanish to the area comprising the modern states of Baja California and Baja California Sur in Mexico, and the modern state of California and part of the state of Nevada in the United States of America. Administratively, it was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. As the name is plural, it must be understood to apply from approximately 1770, when the region was divided into north and south administrative areas, until 1848 when Alta California was ceded to the United States. It may perhaps still be used to refer to the two states in Mexico. The inland part of the Californias was not precisely defined and at times was understood to include the present states of Nevada and Arizona and portions of New Mexico and Utah. To the east it was bordered by the Gobernaciones (provinces) of Sonora, which included the settlements in Arizona, and Nuevo México. Most of the colonization of the area was done first by Jesuit missionaries, who set out, with the aid of Spanish soldiers stationed in a system of presidios, to convert and to politically and socially reorganize the Native communities of the region. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on March 4, 2001. The length of the article is 4064 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El indígena visible.(movimiento por los derechos civiles de pueblos indígenas en México)(TT: The visible native.)(TA: indigenous peoples' civil rights movement in Mexico)
Author: Carlos Monsiváis
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 4, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 10

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This digital document is an article from The Other Side, published by The Other Side on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The people's knowledge: in Chiapas, Mexico, ancient indigenous wisdom about medicinal herbal healing is the prey of a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. Some call it progress. Others call it biopiracy.
Author: Jason Stein
Publication: The Other Side (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: The Other Side
Volume: 39Issue: 5Page: 40(7)

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This digital document is an article from History Behind the Headlines, Vols. 1-6, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 7068 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs. ... Read more

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Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, & Oregon By Lynn Stephen

Lynn Stephen's Transborder Lives ends with a call for "producing results that are useful to those they work with as well as interesting to an audience of anthropologists and students" (325).Stephen's own work as a "collaborative activist ethnographic researcher" (321) has certainly risen to the occasion.Mixing substantial portions of transcripted interviews with historical research and careful analysis, Lynn Stephen's work bears out her thesis that the migration of Oaxacans to and from the U.S. has had profound impact across many borders: national, gendered, linguistic, political, economic.Her adoption of the term "transborder" (as opposed to the politically limited terms "transnational" or "binational") is done without fanfare and amply demonstrated to be apt (6, 65).

Among the greatest strengths of Stephen's work is her production of what Geertz referred to as "thick" ethnography.Her reproduction of several substantial portions of her subject interviews does not detract from her work, but is seamlessly integrated into her variety of topics. From the horrific narrative of border-crosser Emiliano Gómez (155 - 159) to the more reflective political commentary of Juan Gómez (45 - 49) or the focus on the impact of 9/11 on immigrant experience from Patricia Cruz (153 - 154), Lynn Stephen effectively portrays a sense of a transborder community that transcends simple individual portraits. In terms of her own dictum, "let them speak for themselves" (307), Stephen's integration of their narratives with her broader portrait of the complex interactions of transborder mechanisms succeeds admirably.

Throughout her work Stephen's activism keeps us aware that her work is not operating within an academic bubble. This work even applies to those seemingly far from the locus of immigrant lives; it touches on potent issues as 9-11 (14, 130, 153); the role of multi-national-corporate prepared food in America and American economy (10, 131 - 134), and America's historical struggles with race and racism, including the Alien Land Law - 1913 (69), Operation Wetback (74); Perez v. Lippold (222); and Oregon State Constitution (150).While some of her work focuses on the Zapotec and Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, it is clear that the "impact" of migration is not merely on the U.S., but rather profoundly affects lives in Mexico, such as the multi-generational impact of immigration (12) and profound cultural shifts on world-views (20, 51).Stephen charts the complexity of transborder effects from the global, as in the impact of free trade (122 - 131, 313 - 314) to the intimate, dealing with gender roles and domestic violence or gendered shifts in income (53 - 55, 183).Staunchly avoiding a polarizing "racial" filter in her work, Stephens boldly explores what Arredondo referred to as the"striations within" the Mexican community (212 - 220).The topics she addresses are wide-ranging but ever centrally focused on her transborder theme.

Her research and formal structures are well handled.When she discusses the U.S. census' work on immigrants, she actively demonstrates census issues (221 - 230)by producing the original documents (228) instead of simply telling us about the census (as was the case in Molina's work).She even provides a brief overview of the pre-Conquest of Oaxaca in her presentation of the on-line historical information generated by members of the local village (283 - 293).She thus smoothly integrates a portion of Oaxaca's historical past in a contemporary discussion of the use of modern technologies in a transborder context.Her citations range widely, from Anzaldúa (23) to Huntington (64).She provides her readers with quite informative charts, graphs (87 - 93) and maps (104 - 115).All in all this is an excellent work, deserving praise.

This is not to say the book is without its flaws.There are brief awkward moments in her writing, however minor they may be. Her presentation of the notion of civic and religious cargo (ix, 55 - 62) was unnecessarily confusing due to a lack of contextualization in her use of the term.There were also a few awkward moments which emerged in her reference to Foucault (154), to California's "twenty" missions (66) and to the unquestioned assertion that the indigenous of Mexico always were ranked below Mestizos (207). Occasionally decontextualized information was presented, for instance, in the vote on the San Andrés Accords, while she notes that the legislation was not passed in Oaxaca (210), she gives no explanation as to why this might have been the case.Such oversights are infrequent, however.

There are a few topics which she neglects in this already comprehensive and wide-ranging work, but which may serve for further fertile exploration in a trans-border context.It is obviously outside the scope of her investigation to do ethnographic reportage on the U.S. citizen entities affected by the transborder phenomenon.It would be fascinating to see how she would treat border guards and Minutemen (29), formal and popular religion, gang violence (25, 37), and evolving mechanisms of chain migration (mentioned somewhat, but more in the context of "coyotes").

I found it interesting that while I gained a sense of these transborder lives, I never quite gained a sense of place in her work. While I feel she tries to be attuned to the particularities of place , in the end, I did not have a clear portrait of Teotihuacan del Valle or of San Augustin Atenango; nor was there a clear sense of what it was like to be in Santa Ana, Oxnard, or even Woodburn.While I agree with her assessment: "The numbers of Mexicans are so great in towns like Santa Ana and Oxnard, California... that we could speak of them as extensions of Mexico" (63), and while she quite effectively provided a vivid portrait of the transborder lives in these areas, the locales themselves remained vague and ambiguous.Then again, Stephens is writing ethnography, not geography.

As a concluding comment, I was deeply struck by the personal account of Pancho Mendoza (218 - 219).The same years he was in Oxnard were the same years I was teaching ESL to immigrant students in the same school district.While Pancho was not one of my students, his personal portrait of the ethnic sub-divisions and negotiations within the high school setting reflected potently the experience and observation I had as a teacher in the same setting at the same time.Altogether that simple account brought to reality of Lynn Stephen's work to a clarity and sense of personal engagement for me, which I deeply appreciate. ... Read more

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A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, "Mexico's Indigenous Communities" is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present. Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases, falling within successive historical epochs, that illustrates how the practice of drawing up and preserving historical documents - in particular, maps, oral accounts, and painted manuscripts - has been a determining factor in the history of Mexico's Indian communities for a variety of purposes, including the significant issue of land and its rightful ownership. Since the sixteenth century, numerous Indian pueblos have presented colonial and national courts with historical evidence that defends their landholdings. Because of its sweeping scope, groundbreaking research, and the author's intimate knowledge of specific communities, "Mexico's Indigenous Communities" is a unique and exceptional contribution to Mexican history. It will appeal to students and specialists of history, indigenous studies, ethnohistory, and anthropology of Latin America and Mexico. ... Read more

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The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarship with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement. ... Read more

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Understanding the Zapatistas
Jan Rus and company have compiled some well-researched articles by scholars who have devoted many years living with and studying indigenous communities in Chiapas.
This book is a well-organized anthropological-historical analysis of the emergence of the Zapatista rebellion and the response by the different indigenous groups who are seeking to develop their identity and their communities in a changing Mexico. An excellent introduction and well-written articles make this text essential for a balancedand insightful understanding of the groups seeking autonomy and democracy in Chiapas and Mexico. ... Read more