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, 311
X
Xelaju, 177
Xicalanco, 134
Xipe Totec, 99, 102, 116, 144
Xochicalco, 72, 91
Xochimilco, 55
Xoconusco, 12 8 , 135, 136,
137
Y
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, 73–76
Yucatecan language, 75, 165,
411, 427
Yumbe, 2
Z
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