Bøger af R. Aida Hernandez Castillo

Synthesizes R. Aida Hernandez Castillo's twenty-four years of activism and research among indigenous women's organisations in Latin America. As both feminist and critical anthropologist, Hernandez Castillo analyses the context of legal pluralism wherein the indigenous women of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia struggle for justice.

In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aida Hernandez delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas's indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on "being Me