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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Chiapas"”.
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Free trade refugees: from Chiapas to the prairie
… world can emerge. Free Trade Refugees: from Chiapas to the Prairie affords this experience and is an underlying aspiration of this study: to provide that experience. If positive, negative, and complicated stereotypes, framed as they are by the truths of the period, also come with an equally …
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Zapatista healthcare in a civilian targeted warfare zone: Chiapas, Mexico
Indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico have endured hundreds of years of attacks on their cultures and life ways. They have been marginalized, excluded, and oppressed. They have experienced the loss of ancestral lands and the destruction of their natural resources and environment. They have been …
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Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico
… metasynthesis of five ethnographies conducted in Chiapas Mexico, this dissertation develops mid-range theories, or strategies, for building peace in Chiapas and in regions experiencing low-intensity conflict more generally. These strategies are based upon the development of Pluriethnic collective …
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Geopolitical Ecology of Rebellion on Environmental Quality in Northeast Chiapas, Mexico
… ecology of rebellious Zapatista areas of Chiapas, Mexico are examined in this research. Quantitative and qualitative (mixed) methods are used to evaluate geopolitical size and reasons for rebellion as well as environmental practices of selected official and rebellious entities. Literature …
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Contrasting epistemologies in the use of natural dyes, Central Highlands of Chiapas
… of the Central Highlands of the state of Chiapas is no exception, where a few textile craftswomen transform various local plants, roots, and berries into colourful dyes and import some pigments into the area, maintaining sharing networks between different ecological regions. Still, these …
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Field and laboratory studies of venezuelan equine encephalitis virus ecology in Chiapas, Mexico.
… of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus in Chiapas Mexico was examined from a field approach and from a laboratory approach. This virus was not previously associated with equine disease in Mexico. The evolution of the equine virulent phenotype was thought to have resulted in a mosquito …
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Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas
… autonomy. Presently, the younger generations in Chiapas are struggling to re-claim their spiritual beliefs as connected to community ecology.
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
… examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fourth World. This comparison is …
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Late Classic Politics and Ideology: A Case Study of Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 at Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico
This project examines Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 (HS. 2) at Yaxchilan, a Classic Maya city in Southern Mexico. Uncovered in 1975 as part of the clearing and consolidation of Structure 33, HS. 2 is made up of thirteen carved blocks which form the riser to the last step in the ascent to this building. …
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A Critical Analysis of Participation and Empowerment in Community Development: An Ethnographic Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico
… of a non-governmental organization based in Chiapas, Mexico. This study aimed to investigate the linkages between participation and empowerment, in their original radical and theoretical forms, as well as in practice—addressing questions of whether and how participation may lead to …
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Gender and Human Rights: Experiences of Indigenous Men and Women from San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas
… by using a case study of San Juan Cancuc, in Chiapas, Mexico. This work is based on UN documents; official documents from Prospera such as the Rules of Operation and on interviews with indigenous men and women; health personnel from San Juan Cancuc; government officers from the programme at …
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Syn-sedimentary tectonostratigraphic influence and isotopic δ18O and δ13C characterization of the Kimmeridgian Akimpech Formation, Campeche-Chiapas Subbasin (Campeche Sound), offshore Mexico.
… Akimpech Formation in the Campeche-Chiapas Subbasin, offshore Mexico and tests two dominant paradigms.
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