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Piacenti, David – Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 2009
This article consists of more than fifty interviews with Spanish and Yucatec-Mayan men from Yucatan, Mexico, to the United States. Based on interview responses, I contend that Yucatec-Mayan immigrants support Jeffrey Cohen's (2004) "household model" and use a ch'i'ibal-centered, or family-centered, decision-making process to frame…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Values, Immigrants, Maya (People)
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Gonzalez, Margarita Rosales; Salgado, Margarita Ines Zarco – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
This paper focuses on the capacity building of "local partnership" members or leaders as development agents in their Mayan communities. It relates to an education/training process started in 1995 in four different regions of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, which was carried out by Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) and academic…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Sustainable Development, Rural Development, Change Agents