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Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas

Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas

Kovic, Christine

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AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0292706405
ISBN13: 9780292706408
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: May 1 2005
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

In the last decades of the twentieth century, thousands of Mayas were expelled, often violently, from their homes in San Juan Chamula and other highland communities in Chiapas, Mexico, by fellow Mayas allied with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). State and federal authorities generally turned a blind eye to these human rights abuses, downplaying them as local conflicts over religious conversion and defense of cultural traditions. The expelled have organized themselves to fight not only for religious rights, but also for political and economic justice based on a broad understanding of human rights.

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