Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2471 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144359)
Principal Investigator: Komisaruk, Catherine
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 50,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 7/15/23 - 5/15/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: ARTS
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Colfa History
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Maya Families, Migration, and Activism in New Spain
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
The John Carter Brown Library
CFDA: 0
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.5; This book project addresses questions about native family structures and migration patterns, as well as native activism, in colonial Central America and southern Mexico. The book manuscript is provisionally titled “Maya Families, Migration, and Activism in New Spain.” Based on extensive research in Guatemalan and Mexican archives, the project focuses on Maya communities, as well as a few Zoque and Pipil communities, in the region now comprising Guatemala, El Salvador, and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The research uncovers previously unrecognized migration patterns that transformed native family structures and communities. The analysis shows that indigenous individuals confronted these changes with strategies that varied by gender. Yet both men and women placed high stakes in native ethnic affiliation and local sovereignty. For scholars and college students, the book will deepen discussions about the survival of native societies in the Americas and in the larger Atlantic World. The project also speaks to current issues, as it provides historical perspectives on today's migrations across cultural and political borders.
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