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

该奖项支持纽约城市大学城市学院人类学系建立REU遗址项目，让本科生参与研究墨西哥东南部恰帕斯高原玛雅人和墨西哥民族(拉迪诺或梅斯蒂佐)之间的当代社会文化变化。学生们将每周三天与印度村庄的家庭一起生活，来到圣克里斯托瓦尔·德拉斯卡萨斯市的研究中心，参加研讨会、玛雅语言课程，并与PI进行讨论。根据项目的研究需要，将定期对手工业生产合作社、实验农业站和政府办公室进行团体旅行。学生将学习基本的普查技术、广泛的访谈和口头叙述、参与者观察和学徒培训，以学习手工艺生产的社会化过程。他们将写日记，并在项目结束时提交总结报告。来自五个不同社区家庭的学生的观察将总结出墨西哥正在经历的债务危机的应对策略。她将利用乔治·科利尔、简·罗斯和南希·莫迪亚诺的专业知识，他们将帮助分配学生，并参加每周的研讨会讨论。

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.