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CURRENT RESEARCH
Dr. Christine Eber is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. She has
been conducting research on indigenous women's experiences with social
change in highland Chiapas, Mexico since 1984. In particular she has
focused on women's experiences in the Zapatista movement, the weaving
cooperative movement, and the Liberation Theology movement of the Catholic
Church in Chiapas. She is author of Women and Alcohol in a Highland
Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow (1995) and co-editor with
Christine Kovic of Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle
and Hope (2003). She is currently researching the experiences of women
in weaving cooperatives as they forge connections across national boundaries
to sell their work through fair trade and to defend their human rights.
As part of this work she is assisting Flor de Margarita Pérez
Pérez, a weaver and community organizer, to write her life story.
Dr. Eber is also working on a book of short stories based on her research
in Chiapas.
In addition to research and writing, Dr. Eber is involved in applied
work with women's weaving cooperatives in Chiapas. She coordinates The
Las Cruces-Chiapas Connection, an organization that assists women's
cooperatives to sell their weavings and that educates consumers about
the effects of globalization on indigenous artisans. In collaboration
with the Las Cruces Chiapas Connection and NMSU's Center for Latin American
and Border Studies, Dr. Eber has helped organize many visits over the
years of weavers and human rights defenders from Chiapas to NMSU and
to communities throughout New Mexico.
Dr. Eber teaches courses on the graduate and undergraduate level focusing
on gender, religion, art, and Mesoamerican peoples. She also teaches
in the Women's Studies program. She is advisor of the Anthropology Club
and co-advisor with Neil Harvey (Government Dept.) of SALAS, the Student
Association of Latin American Studies.
In August 2005 Dr. Eber received NMSU's Dennis Darnall Faculty Achievement
Award for outstanding contributions to research, service, and teaching.
In May 2002 she was recipient of the Governor's Award for Outstanding
New Mexico Women.
Recent Publications
2006 "Women and Gender in Mesoamerica." (1st author with Brenda Rosenbaum). In The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (revised and updated edition). Robert Carmack, Janine Gasco, Gary Gossen, editors. Pp. 810-875. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
2006 "Reflections on Working with Women's Cooperative Economic Groups in the United States,Mexico and Cameroon. (with Megan Snedden and Meghann Dallin). Practicing Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 28-33.
2006 "'Are We Standing on a Rock or Sand?': Questioning
Women-Centered Organizing in the United States, Mexico and Cameroon."
(third author with Megan Snedden, Meghann Dallin and Irma Castañeda).
Practicing Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 34-38.
2004 “Gender and Mesoamerican Religions.” (with Christine Kovic). In The Encyclopedia of Religion. (2nd edition). Lindsay Jones, editor. New York: Macmillan.
2003 Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of struggle and Hope (co- editor with Christine Kovic). New York & London: Routledge.
2003 “Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women.” In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 113-129. New York & London, Routledge.
2003. “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalhó, 1970-1998.” In Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous People of Chiapas and the Zapatista Movement, edited by Shannon Mattiace, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Jan Rus, pp. 135-159. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland
2003 “The Promise.” Anthropology & Humanism, Vol. 28, Issue no.1: 101-110.
2001. “‘Take my water’: Liberation Through Prohibition in San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas.” Special Issue, “Alcohol and Drug Studies at the Millennium.” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 53, Issue #2: 251-262.
2001. “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalhó, 1970-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #117, Volume 28, No. 2: 220-247.
2001. “Women and the Democracy Movement in San Pedro Chenalhó.” In The Other Word: Women and Violence in Chiapas, Before and After Acteal, edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, pp. 75-93. The International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen.
2001. “Obstacles to Women’s Grassroots Development Strategies in Mexico” (with Janet Tanski). The Review of Radical Political Economics 33: 441-460.
2001. “Contemporary Gender Roles in Mesoamerica” (with Robin O’Brian). In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1, Davíd Carrasco, Executive Editor, pp. 432-434. Oxford University Press, New York.
2000 Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water
of Sorrow, updated & revised edition with epilogue (1st edition,
1995). University of Texas Press, Austin
2000 ‘That they be in the middle, Lord’: Women, Weaving, and
Cultural Survival in San Pedro Chenalhó. In Artisans and Cooperatives:
Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, edited by Kimberly
Grimes and Lynne Milgram, pp. 45-64. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1999 “Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San Pedró Chenalhó, Chiapas, 1980-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #106, Volume 26, No. 3, pp. 6-36 .