Social actors and processes of sociocultural change in the indigenous territory of the Chiapas highlands, México.
Abstract
This study attempts to explain social and cultural processes that
transformed the indigenous territory in the Chiapas Highlands
during the last fifty years of the past century. These changes
were slow and full of conflict within indigenous communities,
and they modified the social relations of exploitation that had
ordered social life in that territory. The government’s policies
sought to eliminate indigenous culture and disintegrate
communities to help the figure of citizen to emerge. This did not
happen, for the indigenous population managed to seize the limited
benefits that the federal government’s programs provided them,
they opened up to interaction with the mixed race society and
reconstituted their indigenous identity. The study has as its
analytical axis the territory, which is appropriated and
transformed by the social action of actors that live and politically
confront each other for the resources found in it.
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