Verapaz, 1 8 6, 192
Vicente, Rafael Sebastián
Guillén, 396
Villa, Pancho, 29 8 –99
Virgin of Guadalupe, 197–9 8 ,
336, 517–1 8 , 527
Vitoria, Francisco de, 161,
163
von Daniken, Erich, 24
von Humboldt, Alexander,
27
W
Wage labor, 1 88 , 331, 35 8
Walker, William, 2 89
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 123
War of Saint Rose, 524
Watanabe, John, 34
Weber, Max, 377, 506
Webster, David, 93
West Mexico, 8 7, 124, 129–30
Willey, Gordon, 93
Women
in armed struggles, 456,
468 –71
colonial period, 207–11,
445–53
domestic production, 464
economics and, 459
gender awareness in,
471–75
independence move-
ments, role in, 439–41,
453–54
maquiladora industries,
role in, 465–66
in Mesoamerica, 439–75
Mexican Revolution, role
in, 455–57, 457–5 8
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modernization of indige-
nous societies, 459–61
organizations, 472
postcolonial Mexico,
453–5 8
responses to patriarchal
domination, 450–51
response to economic cri-
sis, 461–65
Revolutionary Law of, 474
violence against, 466–6 8
World system theory, 123–24
Writing, 425–30, 500–504
ethnocentrism and, 426
system, 50, 54, 55, 142
Wuh, Popol, 311X
Xelaju, 177
Xicalanco, 134
Xipe Totec, 99, 102, 116, 144
Xochicalco, 72, 91
Xochimilco, 55
Xoconusco, 12 8 , 135, 136,
137Y
Yacatecuhtli, 102
Yaqui, 17
rebellions, 2 86
Yoaltepec, 12 8
Yope, 144
Yopitzinco, 144
Yucatán, 257, 31 8
Caste War of, 2 8 3– 89
Yucatán Peninsula, 10, 52,
59, 8 1– 8 5, 110, 165,
179– 8 0, 419
Chichén Itzá, 73–76Yucatecan language, 75, 165,
411, 427
Yumbe, 2Z
Zaachila, 79, 106, 131
Zambos, 201
Zapata, Emiliano, 297, 300,
395
Zapatistas/ Zapatista
movement, 303–5,
370, 440
Chiapas, 341, 3 8 5, 3 86
community organization,
399–400
emergence of, 3 8 2– 85
ethnic structure of,
394–400
ideal of inclusion, 397
Mayan, 379–406
Mexican Revolution,
36–37, 379– 82
Mexico, 331, 3 8 3– 85
political organization,
400–403
preamble of 1996
Indigenous Forum,
393–94
significance of, 403–5
structural themes of,
38 6–94
women in, 470, 473
Zapotec language, 12 8 , 130,
424
Zapotecs, 30, 71, 8 0, 123,
131, 177, 31 8 , 319, 459,
460
Zinacantán, 493
Zoques, 177