Development Processes in Maya Communities

该奖项为纽约城市大学城市学院人类学系提供支持，以继续本科生研究经验现场项目，该项目将涉及本科生研究墨西哥东南部恰帕斯地区玛雅高地和墨西哥民族社区的当代社会文化变化。过去30年来一直在研究拉丁美洲工作和性别的PI将指导该项目。学生们将在一周的一部分时间里与印第安村庄的家庭住在一起，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，将定期组团前往手工业生产合作社、实验农业站和政府办公室。学生将学习基本的普查技巧、广泛的访谈和口述叙述、参与观察和学徒训练，以了解手工艺生产的社会化过程。他们将每天写日记，并在项目结束时提交总结报告。对来自不同社区家庭的学生的观察，将构成对墨西哥正在经历的债务危机应对策略的说明。PI将得到目前在恰帕斯工作的同事的协助，他们的学术生涯致力于调查该地区的土著文化。

This award provides support to the Department of Anthropology at City College of the City University of New York to continue a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Project which will involve undergraduates in the study of contemporary socio- cultural change among the highland Maya and Mexican national communities of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. The PI, who has studied work and gender in Latin America for the past thirty years, will direct the project. Students will live with families in Indian villages during a part of the 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 different communities will add up to an account of coping strategies in the debt crisis Mexico is undergoing. The PI will be assisted by colleagues presently working in Chiapas who have devoted their scholarly careers to investigations of indigenous culture in the area.