Word: tzotzil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carnegie Corporation offered to finance the Project as part of its worldwide research program in culture change. Columbia and Cornell were also invited to participate in the program, and the first undergraduates were accepted to do field work. The modern Chiapas Project began taking shape. Field workers learned Tzotzil, the Indian language, and lived with native families rather than in houses they built themselves. The increased contact paid off--the Indians began to trust the anthropologists enough to believe that their presence would cause them no harm...
...with stays of a few days to several weeks in Indian villages. Each has his own project, with seminars and meetings during the summer to coordinate field work, provide supervision and synthesize some of the results. Students live with native families when they are in the field, improving the Tzotzil they studied back in Cambridge and working in either Tzotzil or Spanish (many of the men speak at least some Spanish; almost none of the women do). In marked contrast to their fearful elusiveness that first year, observers are now allowed to participate in and even to photograph ceremonies...
...which are in preparation or in press. The Project files also boast 11 doctoral dissertations, and seven senior theses. A twenty-minute film on the life of Zinacanteco women has just been completed, adding one more dimension to the Project's multimedia facilities (there is also a set of Tzotzil language lab tapes). But by far the most impressive part of the Project's machinery is the aerial photo lab, also in William James. Rolls of film are stored in a large metal cabinet, and by matching their numbers with the numbered sections of a map of the whole valley...
...world. But Zinacantecos do not care how they appear to the rest of the world. They do not even think of themselves primarily as Indians, despite the fact (unrecognized by them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant to any inroads of Mexican or Western civilization. Even Catholicism has failed to do more than lay a slight gloss of saints and churches over his old, basic Indian religion. Moreover, a Zinacanteco manages his own local government and possesses...