Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Gender and National Identities Among Non-Indigenous Neo-Pentecostals in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

在L医生的监督下。基思布朗，研究生研究员丽贝卡C。恩格勒特将调查宗教实践，性别认同，民族主义和国家意识形态在墨西哥恰帕斯州之间的关系。此前的研究发现，在从天主教改信新教的家庭中，男性的“大男子主义”倾向较低，饮酒较少，对家务贡献更多，并给予妻子更多自主权。与此同时，国家继续促进大男子主义身份作为真正墨西哥人的核心男性身份。研究人员建议扩展这些早期的研究结果与自然的实验，她将比较性别关系和国家和民族认同的概念之间的梅斯蒂索（非印度，西班牙后裔）新五旬节派家庭与梅斯蒂索天主教家庭在恰帕斯州的高地。研究人员精通西班牙语，将采用混合方法进行全面和系统的调查。她将开始两个月的参与观察实地研究在两个教会团体在圣克里斯托博尔德拉斯卡萨斯。然后，她将对来自五旬节派和天主教家庭的20名男性和20名女性进行深入访谈和认知分析任务（桩分类测试，分类测试）。最后，她将对其他社区的家庭样本进行调查，重复认知任务，看看调查结果是否更普遍。这项研究意义重大，因为尽管混血儿是墨西哥的主要群体，但在恰帕斯等土著地区，他们的研究不足;因此，这项研究将有助于填补该地区人种学的空白。同样重要的是，随着新教在前天主教国家的传播，我们理解其政治和社会后果。这将是第一个超越简单联想的研究，并试图分离出改变行为的认知模型。该研究项目也将大大有助于研究生的教育。

Under the supervision of Dr. L. Keith Brown, graduate student researcher Rebecca C. Englert will investigate the relationship between religious practice, gender identity, nationalism, and state ideology in Chiapas, Mexico. Previous research has found that in families that convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, men are less "machismo" oriented, drink less, contribute more to domestic chores, and give their wives more autonomy. At the same time, the state continues to promote a machismo identity as a core male identity of true Mexicans. The researcher proposes to extend those earlier findings with a natural experiment, in which she will compare gender relations and notions of state and ethnic identity among Mestizo (non-Indian, Spanish descendant) neo-Pentecostal families with Mestizo Catholic families in the highlands of Chiapas. The researcher, who is fluent in Spanish, will employ a mixed-methods approach for a well-rounded and systematic investigation. She will begin with two months of participant observation field research in two church groups in San Cristobol de las Casas. She will then follow-up with in-depth interviews and cognitive analysis tasks (pile sort tests, triage tests) of a sample of 20 men and 20 women from Pentecostal and Catholic families. Finally, she will survey a sample of households from other communities, repeating the cognitive tasks, to see if the findings hold up more generally. The research is significant because although Mestizos are the dominant group in Mexico, they are understudied in indigenous areas, such as Chiapas; thus the research will contribute to filling a gap in the ethnography of the region. It also important that as Protestantism spreads in formerly Catholic countries, we understand the political as well as social consequences. This will be one of the first studies to go beyond simple association and try to isolate the cognitive models that underlie the changed behavior. The research project also will contribute significantly to the education of a graduate student.