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Since emerging as armed insurgency group from Mexico's Lacandon Jungle in 1994, the Zapatistas have constantly shifted their strategic focus in response to changing political conditions in Mexico. Their latest initiative is the Other Campaign, so named to indicate their opposition to and disdain for the Presidential electoral politics happening at

Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez to the Zapatista communiques to Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666, this examinati...

This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in society and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest and colonial Mexico.

"El velo de la impunidad es una red que lo cubre todo en Tenancingo,Tlaxcala, esa pequeña porción de tierra en donde los proxenetas han hecho de su > un negocio familiar y rentable a expensas de niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes que, engañadas o secuestradas, sucumben ante promesas de amor; y más tarde, victimizadas y ultrajadas, terminan sometidas por miedo a perder algo más que su dignidad. Los testimonios permiten observar, con lupa, la radiografía de una práctica ilícita que a fuerza de costumbr...

On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a primarily indigenous group that has declared war on the state of Mexico. The massacre has been attributed to a paramilitary group composed of ordinary citizens acting on their own, although eyewitnesses claim...

A comprehensive overview of Mexico's military history from 1810 to the present day, including rare facts and information not found online. Mexico's past is riddled with stories of struggle-military battles, internal rebellions, revolutions, and drug wars. This in-depth reference provides a complete military history of that country since its War of Independence in 1810 through the present day. From the evolution of combat in the region, to the motivations and tensions behind recurrent conflicts,...

Most of our information on Mesoamerican religions comes from central Mexico, but the mythology of this area has been poorly understood. Myths of Ancient Mexico is the first comprehensive examination of these myths. In this innovative book, Michel Graulich summarizes the stories concerning the origin of the cosmos and the legendary histories of the Aztecs and their precursors, the Toltecs. The myths are compared with one another, then with similar material from other Mesoamerican cultures, partic...

The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico, a large and rapidly growing manufacturing metropolis in northern Mexico with much in-migration, and a sample of 380 men in Cedral, San Luis Potosi, a small, economically depressed community with hi...