Unmasking Mayan Mexico: women's issues and ethnic identities play self-defining roles in the contemporary indigenous theatre of Chiapas.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)
American Theatre, May, 2005 by Underiner, Tamara L.
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As anthropologist June Nash has pointed out, "Women, as caretakers for the young and old, are central actors in the emergent social movements of indigenous peoples in the hemisphere precisely because of their connectedness to the issues of the survival of past traditions and future generations in their own lives." In doing what they can to ensure their families' physical survival, Mayan women in Chiapas, Mexico, at once preserve certain traditions and significantly challenge others.
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These challenges go against the grain of practices that ...
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