Uprising of Hope

Drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork with the Zapatistas of south-eastern Mexico cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli reveal a complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers and those of their Chaipas <I>compadres</I> the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research resulting in an ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. <I>Uprising of Hope</I> is compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology social justice ethnography Latin American history and ethnic studies.