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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms of Land Utilization -- 3. Land and the Family -- 4. Land Inheritance in Apas -- 5. Soil Erosion in Chamula -- 6. Marginality -- 7. Ethnicity -- 8. The Refuge-Region Hypothesis -- 9. National Indianism and Indian Nationalism -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodology -- Bibliography -- Index

Democracia en tierras indigenas: Las elecciones en Los Altos de Chiapas (1991‐1998) Juan Pedro Viqueira and Willibald Sonnleitner. coordinadores (Mexico, D.F.: Centro de Irrvestigaciones. Estudios Superiores en Antropologi'a Social, Kl Colegiode Mexico, and Instituto Federal Electoral, 2000)

Over three decades, southeastern Mexico has experienced social and economic changes that restructured agriculture, exacerbated class divisions, and increasingly politicized ethnic relations in a region with a large indigenous population. The Zapatista rebellion of 1994 both reflected these processes and sharpened the economic, social, and political divisions growing out of them. It also refocused opposition to the political structures through which privileged elites, from the national government down to local officials, have controlled the region's resources and maintained order. As negotiations continue between the Zapatistas and the national government, the future is uncertain. Yet a lasting peace will have to accommodate the region's recent transformations of social structure.