Las Abejas: Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415942157)

Las Abejas came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity construction. The uniqueness of this study is the analysis of the role of international human rights observers in relation to indigenous communities in resistance. In this fascinating study, Marco Tavanti explains how cultural, religious, political, human rights and nonviolent frameworks combine in a syncretic identity of resistance.

Author: Marco Tavanti
ISBN-10: 0415942152
ISBN-13: 9780415942157
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2002
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.76w x 0.85d