In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large number of indigenous Maya people have
relocated from their villages to an urban centre where many families, especially mothers and …

Although there has been extensive research on the issue of street and street working
children in developing countries over the last 20 years, few studies specifically investigated …

In recent decades, Maya ecocultural environments in Chiapas, Mexico, have undergone
continuous change from more subsistence based to more commerce based and from more …

This study tests the hypothesis that societal change from subsistence agriculture to a market
economy with higher levels of formal schooling leads to an increase in individualistic values …

We propose to analyze how difference is constructed in order to produce diverse
inequalities along the lines of ethnicity, social class, generation, and gender, in Yaxcabá, a …

Social changes in indigenous Maya communities in Chiapas, Mexico toward increasing
levels of formal education, commercialization, and urbanization are transforming traditional …

By comparing the learning of weaving in 1970 and two decades later, Greenfield (this issue)
dramatically demonstrates how limited the socialization literature is. Few if any studies about …

Building on recent efforts to reconceptualize development and socialization as contextually
grounded processes, several aspects of Yucatec Mayan children's daily lives are observed …

In 2001, Alma Kauil Tun left her natal village of Kuchmil to find wo Cancun's service industry.
1 With help from relatives, she procured a part job doing laundry for a middle-class family …

This chapter has formulated 3 cultural principles of engagement for young Mayan children
that were developed from general ethnographic knowledge of the Mayan culture and …