...Silver Moon Developing Zapatista Autonomy: Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas . By Barmeyer Niels . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . xxvi + 282 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright...

...Stephen E. Lewis Based on documents housed in Mexico City and Chiapas, this essay describes how Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) managed to establish its pilot Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas in 1951. Facing opposition from the state government, the state alcohol monopoly...

...Jeffrey H. Cohen Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 The Zapatistas, Subcomandante Marcos, and Chiapas, Mexico, Fifteen Years On Jeffrey H. Cohen,The Ohio State University Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. By Aaron Bobrow-Strain...

.... xiii + 403 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, tables,glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. $24.95 paper.) 2003 211 Book Reviews 751 Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border...

...John E. Clark The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas . Edited by Bassie-Sweet Karen , with Laughlin Robert M. , Hopkins Nicholas A. , and Casimir Andrés Brizuela . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . x+251 pp., preface, introduction, 11 maps, 21 photographs, 6 line drawings...

... between Indians and ladinos in the state of Chiapas on the cusp of momentous change in the late decades of the nineteenth century. Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 Indians, Ladinos, and the Resurrection of the Protector de Indios, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 1870...

..., maintained communal solidarity by accessing the divine using sacred rituals. From New Spain’s southern extremity in Chiapas to its northern frontier in Santa Fe, devout commoners made votive offerings to combat disease and recalibrate the cosmos. Indigenous medical specialists such as curanderos and midwives...

... of their grandparents while the grandparents were still around.” Anyone who aspires to understand modern-day Chiapas should read this book. In 1985, Jan and Diane Rus (respectively, an anthropologist trained at Harvard and University of California, Riverside and a bilingual education specialist), together...

...: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax . Boulder: Westview Press. Rus, Jan 1994 The “Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional”: The Subversion of Native Government in Highland Chiapas, 1936-1968. In Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico . Gilbert M...

..., Ladinos, and the Resurrection of the Protector de Indios, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 1870–85,” examines the question of legal engagement in an atmosphere of inequity. In the Mexican period, jurisprudence demonstrated that Indians continued an understand- ing of the legal system as a means...

... and ranging from Chiapas to Nicaragua (corresponding to the boundaries of the Audiencia de Guatemala). Twenty-­one of these docu- ments can be identified as Pipil. Nineteen are Classical Nahuatl. Three con- tain a variety we have named Central American Colonial Nahuatl. Three of the documents...

.... They do not face the photographer, but rather gaze smiling, perhaps laughing, to their right. A caption dates the photograph (see the cover image) to 1955, places it at San Juan Chamula, a Tzotzil town in the Chiapas highlands, and specifies that it was taken in the course of an anti...

... University, Middle American Research Institute. Blom, Frans 1954 Ossuaries, Cremation, and Secondary Burials among the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 43 : 123 -35. Bloom, Frans, S. S. Grosjean, and H. Cummins 1934 A Maya Skull from the Uloa Valley, Republic...

... by the agrarian reform of the Mexican Revolution, presents a different scenario for collaborative historical research. First of all, intense regional differences abound. In Chiapas, cattle ranchers have dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their lands, making land hunger a central issue in the Zapatista uprising...

... : 66 – 97 . Recinos Adrián 1995 [1947] Popol Vuh: Las antiguas historias del Quiché . Guatemala City : Editorial Piedra Santa . Remesal Antonio 1966 [1619] Historia General de las indias occidentales y particular de la gobernación de Chiapas y Guatemala . Guatemala City...

... section consists of three chapters on research outside the Gulf region. The contributions by Christine Niederberger and John Clark and Mary Pye argue that ranked societies in the Basin of Mexico and the coast of Chiapas...

.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Ringle, William M., and Thomas C. Smith-Stark 1996 A Concordance to the Inscriptions of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.New Orleans: Tulane University, Middle American Research Institute. Stuart, David 1998 ‘‘The Fire Enters His House...

... work on the contemporary Tzeltal people of Chiapas, Mexico. He then proceeds to integrate analysis of the bioarchaeological data on diet, cranial and dental modification, gender, age, and health with these documentary sources. Chapter 2 moves from the deceased’s life to what the dressing and arranging...

... to the peripheries. The story becomes more confused the farther it moves from central Mexico. Nicholson begins by surveying native language accounts and non-Nahuatl accounts in central Mexico. From there he moves to Oaxaca, Chiapas...

... such as Beach, Luzzadder-Beach, and especially Terry to Chunchucmil to investigate whether ancient Maya cities incorporated marketplaces. While difficult to demonstrate, plazas and other open spaces were surely markets tied to regional and long-distance trade as in Yucatán, highland Guatemala, Chiapas...