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Salvador Vela married Leonor Zamora, daughter of Jose Antonio Zamora and Ignacia Tijerina, in 1822 in Reynosa, Nuevo Santander, Mexico. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mexico and Texas.
Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community. In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. She explores various personal and social strategies women use to avoid problem drinking, including conversion to Protesta...
Dispositivo narrativo y dominio social. El uso político de los muertos de Acteal, es una exhaustiva investigación sobre las contradicciones que resultaron en confrontaciones violentas que si bien tuvieron su culmen —viral— en la matanza ocurrida el 22 de diciembre de 1997, siguen ocurriendo. Vinculado con el conflicto entre el EZLN y el gobierno federal, durante el año 1994, se promovió el juicio queseñalaba al trabajo de la diócesis de San Cristóbal de lasCasas, combinado con las labores de la guerrilla zapatista,como la expresión más prestigiosa de resistenciasocial. Ahí, aseguraron los promotores de la idea, se concentró«lo mejor» de la «fuerza moral» que tenían los mo...