Zapotec women : gender, class, and ethnicity in globalized Oaxaca
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Zapotec women : gender, class, and ethnicity in globalized Oaxaca
Duke University Press, 2005
2nd ed
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"Revised and updated"
Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1991
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [343]-369) and index
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In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, have changed in response to the international demand for Oaxacan textiles. Based on Stephen's research in Teotitlan during the mid-1980s, in 1990, and between 2001 and 2004, this volume provides a unique view of a Zapotec community balancing a rapidly advancing future in export production with an entrenched past anchored in indigenous culture.Stephen presents new information about the weaving cooperatives women have formed over the last two decades in an attempt to gain political and cultural rights within their community and standing as independent artisans within the global market. She also addresses the place of Zapotec weaving within Mexican folk art and the significance of increased migration out of Teotitlan. The women weavers and merchants collaborated with Stephen on the research for this book, and their perspectives are key to her analysis of how gender relations have changed within rituals, weaving production and marketing, local politics, and family life. Drawing on the experiences of women in Teotitlan, Stephen considers the prospects for the political, economic, and cultural participation of other indigenous women in Mexico under the policies of economic neoliberalism which have prevailed since the 1990s.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Ethnicity and Class in the Changing Lives of Zapotec Women 15
2. Kinship, Gender, and Economic Globalization 46
3. Six Women's Stories:Julia, Cristina, Angela, Alicia, Imelda, and Isabel 63
4. Setting the Scene: The Zapotecs of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 92
5. Contested Histories: Women, Men, and the Relations of Production in Teotitlan, 1920-1950s 122
6. Weaving as Heritage: Folk Art, Aesthetics, and the Commercialization of Zapotec Textiles 152
7. From Contract to Co-op: Gender, Commercialization, and Neoliberalism in Teotitlan 200
8. Changes in the Civil-Religious Hierarchy and Their Impact on Women 231
9: Fiesta. The Gendered Dynamics of Ritual Participation 250
10. Challenging Political Culture:Women's Changing Political Participation in Teotitlan 282
After Words: On Speaking and Being Heard 324
Notes 333
Glossary of Spanish and Zapotec Terms 339
Bibliography 343
Index 371
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