Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization

June C. Nash

Routledge, 2001 - Business & Economics - 303 pages

This text provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico. The author updates the status of this confrontation and presents an examination of how the Chiapas, as a governing entity, are entering into the new world order.

About the author

June Nash is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the City College of New York and Graduate Center. She is the author of We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us (1993). She was awarded the American Anthropologist's Distinguished Service Award in 1995.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization
• Author: June C. Nash
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2001
• ISBN: 0415928621, 9780415928625
• Length: 303 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; History / Ancient / General; History / Latin America / Central America; History / Latin America / Mexico; History / Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era; Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Sociology / General