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LLANOS-HERNANDEZ, Luis  e  ROSAS-BANOS, Mara. Communality and Neoliberalism: The Indigenous Dilemma in Chiapas. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.4, pp.469-486. ISSN 1870-5472.

The transformations that indigenous communities experience as a result of the implementation of neoliberal policies by the federal government speak of a process of sociocultural innovation that has given rise to various forms of socioeconomic organization in indigenous communities. The objective of this document is to expose two types of responses that arise from indigenous communities in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The methodology has an interdisciplinary approach that allows building the analysis framework which connects historical, sociological, anthropological and economic elements in the territories, an interdisciplinary perspective that extrapolates diverse explanations about a phenomenon and whose objective is integrating different scientific perspectives in the understanding of real world phenomena. As part of qualitative research, interviews, participant observation and an ethnographic approach are carried out. The results show two types of perspectives of economic and social development among the indigenous population, one linked to capitalist forms of market and another articulated to the renewed indigenous communalist tradition.

Palavras-chave : divide; social change; culture; development; market; modernity.