Women’s Contributions to Living Fully in a Tseltal Indigenous Information System

Iribe Ramirez, Yvette; Gomez, Ricardo; Berwick, Jeannie; Vergara Mendoza, Genoveva; Moreno Tafurt, Maria Del Mar

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Title

Women’s Contributions to Living Fully in a Tseltal Indigenous Information System

Author(s)

• Iribe Ramirez, Yvette
• Gomez, Ricardo
• Berwick, Jeannie
• Vergara Mendoza, Genoveva
• Moreno Tafurt, Maria Del Mar

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• Indigenous knowledge
• Social change
• Information seeking and use

Abstract

We discuss the role of women in endogenous community development among the Tseltal indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. This is part of a Tseltal integrated information system that ties community radio, library, and evaluation system to support community development activities that promote the notion of living fully, or in Tseltal language, “Lekil Cuxlejalil.” We identify key themes based on the testimonies of women working in Tseltal community development and discuss how they support the integrated information systems.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2018 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2018 is held by Yvette Iribe Ramirez, Ricardo Gomez, Jeannie Berwick, Genoveva Vergara Mendoza, Maria Del Mar Moreno Tafurt. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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