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1) Zapotecs
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"Facts about the Zapotec indigenous peoples of Mexico. Includes information about their traditions, myths, social activities, the development of their culture, methods of hunting and gathering, rituals, and their daily lives. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students"--Provided by publisher.
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How does justice really work in the United States? Who has knowledge of the law, access to the legal system, and the will and power to use it? Anthropologist Laura Nader's field trip to a Zapotec village in Mexico during the late 1950s led her to study problem-solving in the local courts. There, "little injustices" were the meat of everyday courtroom life - and that the emphasis was on balanced solutions rather than on blaming a guilty party. In the...
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"Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte. Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley...