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Las Abejas : pacifist resistance and syncretic identities in a globalizing Chiapas / by Marco Tavanti.
Penn Museum Library F1221.T9 T39 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tavanti, Marco, 1965-
- Series:
- Outstanding dissertations on religion in history, society, and culture ; 1.
- Outstanding dissertations on religion in history, society, and culture ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tzotzil Indians--Government relations.
- Tzotzil Indians.
- Tzotzil Indians--Ethnic identity.
- Abejas (Organization).
- Pacifism.
- Ethnicity.
- Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.
- Chiapas (Mexico).
- Pacifism--Mexico--Chiapas.
- Acteal Massacre, Acteal, Mexico, 1997.
- Mexico--Chiapas.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Routledge : New York, 2003.
- Summary:
- "Las Abejas" came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity construction. The uniqueness of this study is the analysis of the role of international human rights observers in relation to indigenous communities in resistance. In this fascinating study, Marco Tavanti explains how cultural, religious, political, human rights and nonviolent frameworks combine in a syncretic identity of resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415942152
- OCLC:
- 49805882
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