Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1983 - 12/31/1984

Funding Totals

$75,000.00 (approved)
$75,000.00 (awarded)


A Modern Maya Diaspora: Out-Migration and Cultural Persistence of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas

FAIN: RO-20442-83

SUNY Research Foundation, Albany (Albany, NY 12222-0001)
Gary H. Gossen (Project Director: April 1982 to October 1990)

To support an ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of the emigrant Chamula Tzotzil Indians of Chiapas, Mexico. Anthropologists will investigate the cultural persistence of the Chamula culture, documenting its adaptation to new settings.