Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Las Abejas and the Acteal Massacre
  • The 1992 Formation of Las Abejas
  • On the Violent Path to Acteal
  • December 22, 1997: Bury My Heart in Acteal
  • The Three Acteals: A Paradigm for Las Abejas Identity
  • Developing a Syncretic Organization
  • Ch. 2. Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks
  • A Syncretic Standpoint
  • Doing Fieldwork in Dangerous Places
  • Research as Collaboration and Bridge Building
  • The Open Fields of Chiapas Research
  • Syncretic and Other Types of Identity Constructions
  • Religious Collective Identities
  • Cultural Identity in Movement
  • Resistance to Neoliberalism in Mexico
  • Ch. 3. The Struggle for Land and Dignity in Chiapas
  • A Double Marginalization: Poor and Indigenous
  • Understanding Chiapas, the Highlands and Chenalho
  • The Tzotziles and Indigenous People of Chiapas
  • Neoliberalism Effects on Land
  • A Double Root of Identity: Land and Dignity
  • The Land Is Our Mother: How Can They Sell Our Mother?
  • We Resist Because of Our Dignity!
  • Ch. 4. The Juxtaposed Meanings of Acteal
  • The Intercommunitarian Conflict Interpretation
  • The Counterinsurgency Interpretation
  • Violent Meanings of Acteal: Paramilitary Presence
  • Political Meanings of Acteal: Military Presence
  • Cultural Meanings of Acteal: Tierra Sagrada
  • Religious Meanings of Acteal: Los Martires
  • Gender Meanings of Acteal: An Attack against Life
  • Nonviolent Meanings of Acteal: Civiles as an Easy Target
  • Global Meanings of Acteal: Mirror and Center of the World
  • Ch. 5. The Cultural and Religious Frameworks of Las Abejas
  • Cultural Framework: Las Abejas as a Maya-Indigenous Movement
  • Religious Framework: Las Abejas as a Progressive Religious Movement
  • Inculturation Dimension: Toward an Autochthonous Tzotzil Church
  • Ecumencal Dimension: Costumbristas, Catolicos y Evangelicos
  • Participation Dimension: Catechists' New Role and Method
  • Liberation Dimension: The 1974 Indigenous Congress
  • Mobilization Dimension: The Formation of Pueblo Creyente
  • Ch. 6. The Political and Human Rights Frameworks of Las Abejas
  • Political Framework: Las Abejas as a Neozapatista Movement
  • Twenty Years Later: The Same Demands
  • Las Abejas as a Neozapatista Movement
  • Las Abejas as a Civil Society
  • Human Rights Framework: Las Abejas as an Indigenous Rights Movement
  • Ch. 7. Las Abejas' Construction of Nonviolent Resistance
  • Nonviolent Resistance as Political Contention
  • Memory of Resistance: Continuing 500 Years of Resistance
  • The Presence of International Human Rights Observers
  • The Accompaniment of Christian Peacemaker Teams
  • Developing Nonviolent Consciousness and Strategies
  • The Gender of Resistance: Women's Double Front of Resistance
  • Ch. 8. Las Abejas' Syncretic Identity of Resistance
  • Bringing Syncretism Back In
  • Syncretic Identity as Resistance
  • Las Abejas' Syncretic Identity of Resistance
  • Constructing the Circle of Syncretic Identity
  • Contributions of a Syncretic Identity of Resistance
  • Conclusion: Never Again a World without Us.