Las Abejas : pacifist resistance and syncretic identities in a globalizing Chiapas / / Marco Tavanti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807790603321
• Autore: Tavanti Marco <1965, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-135-37847-9; 1-135-37840-1; 0-203-95416-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: Religion in History, Society and Culture
• Disciplina: 972.75; 972/.75
• Soggetti: Tzotzil Indians - Government relations; Tzotzil Indians - Ethnic identity; Pacifism - Mexico - Chiapas; Acteal Massacre, Acteal, Mexico, 1997; Chiapas (Mexico) History Peasant Uprising, 1994-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 2003 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE Las Abejas and the Acteal Massacre; The 1992 Formation of Las Abejas; On the Violent Path to Acteal; December 22, 1997: Bury My Heart in Acteal; The Three Acteals: A Paradigm for Las Abejas Identity; Developing a Syncretic Organization; CHAPTER TWO Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks; A ""Syncretic"" Standpoint; Doing Fieldwork in Dangerous Places; Research as Collaboration and Bridge Building; The Open Fields of Chiapas ResearchSyncretic and Other Types of Identity Constructions; Religious Collective Identities; Cultural Identity in Movement; Resistance to Neoliberalism in Mexico; CHAPTER THREE The Struggle for Land and Dignity in Chiapas; A Double Marginalization: Poor and Indigenous; Understanding Chiapas, the Highlands and Chenalhó; The Tzotziles and Indigenous People of ; Chiapas; Neoliberalism Effects on Land; A Double Root of Identity: Land and Dignity; The Land Is Our Mother: How Can They Sell Our Mother?; We Resist Because of Our Dignity!; CHAPTER FOUR The Juxtaposed Meanings of ActealThe Intercommunitarian Conflict Interpretation; The Counterinsurgency Interpretation; Violent Meanings of Acteal: Paramilitary Presence; Political Meanings of Acteal: Military Presence; Cultural Meanings of Acteal: Tierra Sagrada; Religious Meanings of Acteal: Los Mártires; Gender Meanings of Acteal: An Attack Against Life; Nonviolent Meanings of Acteal: Civiles as an Easy Target; Global Meanings of Acteal: Mirror and Center of the World; CHAPTER FIVE The Cultural and Religious Frameworks of Las Abejas; Cultural Framework: Las Abejas as a Maya-indigenous MovementReligious Framework: Las Abejas as a Progressive Religious Movement; Inculturation Dimension: Toward an Autochthonous Tzotzil Church; Ecumencal Dimension: Costumbristas Católicos y Evangélicos; Participation Dimension: Catechists' New Role and Method; Liberation Dimension: The 1974 Indigenous Congress; Mobilization Dimension: The Formation of Pueblo Creyente; CHAPTER SIX The Political and Human Rights Frameworks of Las Abejas; Political Framework: Las Abejas as a Neozapatista Movement; Twenty Years Later: The Same Demands; Las Abejas as a Neozapatista MovementLas Abejas as a Civil Society; Human Rights Framework: Las Abejas as an Indigenous Rights Movement; CHAPTER SEVEN Las Abejas' Construction of Nonviolent Resistance; Nonviolent Resistance as Political Contention; Memory of Resistance: Continuing 500 Years of Resistance; The Presence of International Human Rights Observers; The Accompaniment of Christian Peacemaker Teams; Developing Nonviolent Consciousness and Strategies; The Gender of Resistance: Women's Double Front of Resistance; CHAPTER EIGHT Las Abejas' Syncretic Identity of Resistance; Bringing Syncretism Back In
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.