Who Is Juan Chamula?

Juan Chamula is an Ethnological Re-creation of the life of a Mexican Indian that was written by Ricardo Pozas. Ricardo Pozas was a distinguished Mexican anthropologist, scientific investigator and indigenista. It was translated from the Spanish by Lysande Kremp. Originally published in 1952 as Juan Perez Jolote: Biografa de un Tzotzil. It was also published in University of California Press, 1962. This story is a monograph on the culture of the Chamulas. Furthermore, a monograph is a detailed written study of a single specialized subject or an aspect of it. Also, Chamula are Tzotzil Indians who lived in the rural sectors among the mountain highlands of San Cristobal de La Casa, in the state of Chiapas in Southern Mexico. Juan Chamula is about an Indian man, Juan Perez Jolote, who starts off by talking about

The reason why his father would beat him was because, Juan was not able to work because he did not know how to since he was still young. Juan's dad would beat him because he felt that he was able to do whatever he felt he was doing to Juan since Juan was living under his property. A little later in the story, Juan gets tired of getting beat up by his own father and runs away. He finds this widow and ends up going to live with her. In the story, Juan ends up living with different people because every person he ends up with exchanges Juan for some goods. Juan was being bardered. In a way, Juan’s situation is like human trafficking. The reason why I think that is because Juan was forced to work so he could stay with the person he was staying with. Later in the story Juan gets arrested and goes to jail for 11 months and 2 weeks for a crime that he did not commit. He was accused because he did not want to say who killed the guy, so he took the blame. After he comes out of jail, he becomes a soldier. He and other men have to go fight, some of the men die and Juan and others survive but end up