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Land and Labour in Central Chiapas: A Regional Analysis

Robert Wasserstrom
- 01 Oct 1977 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 4, pp 441-463
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This article is published in Development and Change.The article was published on 1977-10-01. It has received 11 citations till now.

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Development policy, forests, and peasant farms: Reflections on Huastec-managed forests’ contributions to commercial production and resource conservation

TL;DR: The Huastec system of forest management offers an alternative pattern to the agroforestry and plantation schemes now being suggested for development in the tropics as discussed by the authors, it is an alternative that provides protection for wild genetic resources while it contributes to the combination of commercial and subsistence agriculture so important for the successful modernization of peasant agriculture.
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civil-religious hierarchies in central Chiapas: a critical perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that civil-religious hierarchies emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to changes in the regional economy that placed new demands upon Indian laborers.
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Peasant Politics and the Mexican State: Indigenous Compliance in Highland Chiapas

George A. Collier
- 01 Jan 1987 - 
TL;DR: The authors trata de la politica de indigenas Tzotziles y Tzeltales de Chiapas dentro del marco del estado, in which Alternaciones en la politico indigenista y agraria del estados Mexicano influyen al caracter fragmentario y faccional de la vida politica of pueblos indigena, deprimiendo conciencia de clase and subrayando un clientelismo and un caciquismo bastante restringidos in their poder
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Rosario Castellanos et l'altérité indienne dans la "trilogie du Chiapas" : une vision ethnocentrique de l'Indien mexicain

Virginie Ruiz
TL;DR: The trilogie du Chiapas as mentioned in this paper, constituee par deux romans Balun Canan (1957), Oficio de tinieblas (1962) and un recueil de nouvelles Ciudad Real (1960), illustre l'affrontement entre les dominants blancs, heritiers de la Conquete espagnole and les domines, les Indiens, depossedes de leurs terres ancestrales.
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Prehispanic colonization of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

TL;DR: A decade ago, Anne Kirkby as discussed by the authors proposed a model of colonization for the prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, in which settlement location was determined by the distribution of prime agricultural land.