2025-12-02 13.00-14.30 kviečiame į Ciuricho universitete dirbančio mokslininko dr. Werner Hertzog, šiuo metu atliekančio mokslinę stažuotę Vilniaus universitete, paskaitą „Mobility and Community Fragmentation Among the Chiapas Maya, Southern Mexico: Push Factors and Social Change“. Stažuotė įgyvendinama kaip MSCA finansuojamo projekto MARS „Nevakarietiški migracijos režimai globalioje perspektyvoje“ dalis. Šioje paskaitoje bus nagrinėjama, kaip vidinės politinės įtampos, ritualinių pareigų našta ir bendruomenių fragmentacija formuoja Čiapaso majų mobilumo modelius Pietų Meksikoje.
Paskaita vyks VU Filosofijos fakulteto 214 auditorijoje (Universiteto g. 9, Vilnius). Paskaita vyks anglų kalba be vertimo.
Apie paskaitą:
Migration among the Chiapas Maya is often portrayed as a response to poverty or labor markets. In this talk, I discuss the lesser-studied internal drivers of mobility originating within Mayan communities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, survey data, and historical records, I examine how internal political fractures serve as crucial “push factors” shaping migration patterns among Tzotzil-speaking communities. Disputes over fairness, refusals to accept costly ritual obligations, and the collapse of consensus in communal assemblies often generate expulsions, factional splits, and the formation of new settlements around urban areas. I track ritual costs over eight decades, showing that when ritual obligations become unaffordable, Maya households face mounting pressure to refuse service or leave their communities altogether, triggering expulsions and the emergence of new breakaway neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities. These pressures intersect with broader processes of modernization: as Maya families relocate to urban centers, shifts in language use, religious affiliation, and occupational patterns contribute to long-term ethnic change from indigenous “Maya” to Spanish-speaking “Mestizo.” Mobility in this region thus emerges not only as a move toward greater economic opportunity, but as a political response to internal conflicts and fragmentation. The talk argues that understanding contemporary migration in Mayan Mexico requires tracing how native forms of governance, ritual economies, and changing social identities interact to produce distinctive displacement patterns.