| Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development Contributor(s): Earle, Duncan (Author), Simonelli, Jeanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759105405 ISBN-13: 9780759105409 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 Annotation: Drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork with the Zapatistas of south-eastern Mexico, cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli reveal a complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chaipas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research, resulting in an ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope is compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 972.750 |
| LCCN: 2004017835 |
| Series: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.92" W x 9.28" (1.43 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas that reveals a more complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Seeking a new kind of experimental ethnography, Earle & Simonelli have chronicled a social experiment characterized by resistance, autonomy and communality. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chiapas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research. The result is a unique ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope will be compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies. |