Rights in Rebellion - Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas

Zusatztext "Working at the intersections between transnational rights discourses and political! legal! and ethnic movements in Mexico! Shannon Speed elegantly interweaves theoretical analysis! empirical description! historical contextualization! and personal engagement to offer a finely grained ethnography of contemporary events in Chiapas. This work will be a major and enduring contribution." Informationen zum Autor Shannon Speed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is coeditor of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas (2006). Klappentext An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Zusammenfassung An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: Speed Shannon, Shannon Speed
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2007
• EAN: 9780804757331
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5733-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology