{"product_id":"uprising-of-hope-9780759105416","title":"Uprising of Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas that reveals a more complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Seeking a new kind of experimental ethnography, Earle \u0026amp; Simonelli have chronicled a social experiment characterized by resistance, autonomy and communality. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chiapas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research. The result is a unique ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope will be compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeanne Simonelli and Duncan Earle have succeeded in their goal of sharing the Zapatista dreams with their students, anthropological fellow travelers, and what should be a wide readership with this book. En route it provides an extraordinary insight into the Zapatistas, their neighbors in the Lacondon rainforest, the governments \u003ci\u003ede turno\u003c\/i\u003e (shifting regimes), and anthropological efforts as theory and method of human lifeways. Their book may effectively change the way that ethnography is undertaken, as well as written, if their call for an activist approach to research and a collective effort in producing results is heeded. -- June Nash, from the Preface\u003cbr\u003eThe Zapatista rebellion changed the way anthropologists practice their science in the jungles and highlands of Chiapas, where instead of being objects of traditional research, the rebel Zapatistas are now the subject of their own story. Jeanne Simonelli and Duncan Earle are anthropologists for the Zapatista age, never imposing their constructs upon the communities they study, examining and re-examining their own motives about what they are doing, and above all, listening closely as the \u003ci\u003eindigenas \u003c\/i\u003e tell their poignant stories of how Mayan indian villages along the Mexican-Guatemalan border came to embrace the Zapatista struggle. \u003ci\u003eUprising of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that uplifts and transcends anthropology. -- John Ross, author, The War Against Oblivion\u003cbr\u003eEarle and Simonelli make important issues accessible, and highlight the truly innovative efforts of the Zapatista movement ot resist domination from above and from outside. Their unapologetically committed scholarship seems in keeping with Gramsci's admonition to combine pessimism of the intellect with optimism of the will. * Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended. All levels\/libraries. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Lenses and Visions\u003cbr\u003ePart 2 Arrivals\u003cbr\u003e3 Antonio Sanchez Cruz: The Road to the Edge of the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e4 Miguel Santiz: A History of a Person\u003cbr\u003e5 Duncan Earle: Heading for Hell\u003cbr\u003e6 Jeanne Simonelli: Invited to Abandon Mexico\u003cbr\u003ePart 7 Seeking a Path\u003cbr\u003e8 Roads to Rebellion\u003cbr\u003e9 Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e10 Millenium Dreams\u003cbr\u003e11 Analyzing Community Development With the Help of the Community\u003cbr\u003e12 The Expulsion: Legalizing Autonomy in Cerro Verde\u003cbr\u003e13 Informed Permission, Invigorated Autonomy\u003cbr\u003ePart 14 Defining the Dream\u003cbr\u003e15 Alternative Constructions\u003cbr\u003e16 Whirling Silence\u003cbr\u003ePart 17 Horizons of Hope\u003cbr\u003e18 Acompañar Obediciendo\u003cbr\u003e19 Caracoles\u003cbr\u003e20 Waking Up in Reality\u003cbr\u003e21 The Sea of Our Dreams","brand":"AltaMira Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037730177367,"sku":"9780759105416","price":45.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780759105416.jpg?v=1750937032","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uprising-of-hope-9780759105416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}