George A Collier: 2 books
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the...
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement...