De pueblo de indios a centro regional. Las transformaciones históricas de un municipio de Chiapas

Abstract

Research on the town of Tapilula, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, belies the alleged cultural and ethnic immutability of the state's indigenous population that anthropologists have trumpeted over the past decades. Instead of a paradise of resistence against the constant inroads of modernity and Mexico's national culture, Chiapas appears to be, as the case of Tapilula suggests, continuously enmeshing in the historical and cultural context to which this area has belonged since colonial times.