REU Site: Impact of Development on Highland Chiapis Mexico Households and Community

该奖项为人类学系提供支持， 纽约城市大学城市学院将建立一个REU 让大学生参与对知识的研究的现场项目 高地玛雅人和墨西哥人之间的短暂社会文化变化 恰帕斯州东南部的民族（拉迪诺或梅斯蒂索）社区 墨西哥 学生将与印度村庄的家庭一起生活， 一周几天，来到旧金山的研究中心， Cristobal de las Casas的研讨会，玛雅语言课程， 与PI讨论。 手工艺生产团体旅行 合作社、农业试验站和政府 办公室将定期举行雅阁与研究 项目的需要。 学生将学习基本的人口普查 技术，广泛的采访和口头叙述， 参与观察和学徒培训，以学习 手工业生产的社会化过程。 他们会写 每日日记，并在日记结束时提交一份总结报告。 项目 对位于五个家庭的学生的观察 不同的社区将共同应对 墨西哥正在经历的债务危机。 她会画画 乔治科利尔，扬罗斯和南希莫迪亚诺的专业知识， 将有助于分配学生，并进入每周 研讨会讨论。

This award provides support to the Department of Anthropology at City College of the City University of New York to establish an REU Site Project to involve undergraduates in the study of contem porary socio-cultural change among the highland Maya and Mexican national (Ladino or Mestizo) communities of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. Students will live with families in Indian villages three days a week, coming in to the research center in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas for seminars, Maya language lessons, and discussion with the PI. Group trips to handicraft production cooperatives, experimental agricultural stations, and government offices will take place periodically in accord with the research needs of the project. Students will learn basic censusing techniques, extensive interviewing and oral narrative accounts, participant observation, and apprenticeship training to learn the socialization process in handicraft production. They will write daily diaries and submit a summary report at the end of the project. The observations of students located in families in five different communities will add up to an account of coping strategies in the debt crisis Mexico is undergoing. She will draw on the expertise of George Collier, Jan Rus, and Nancy Modiano who will help in the allocation of students and enter into weekly seminar discussions.