Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala

Couverture
University of Texas Press, 1996 - 245 pages

Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to reconsider their concepts of nationalism, community, and identity.

Editors Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown have brought together essays by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala today. Supplementing scholarly analysis of Mayan cultural activism is a position statement originating within the movement and more wide-ranging and personal reflections by anthropologists and linguists who have worked with the Maya over the years. Among the broader issues that come in for examination are the complex relations between U.S. Mayanists and the Mayan cultural movement, efforts to promote literacy in Mayan languages, the significance of woven textiles and native dress, the relations between language and national identity, and the cultural meanings that the present-day Maya have encountered in ancient Mayan texts and hieroglyphic writing.

À l'intérieur du livre

Table des matières

The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala
1
Bibliography 223
7
Figures
18
The Politics of Maya Revindication
19
Induced Culture Change as a Strategy for Socioeconomic
51
Maya Culture and the Politics of Development
74
Maya Public Intellectuals
89
The Discourse of Concealment and 1992
107
The Role of Hieroglyphic
114
The Workshop for Maya on Hieroglyphic Writing
131
Maya Clothing and Identity
141
Chapter 11
165
Classification of the Sample Population by Intergenerational
172
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (1996)

Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. R. McKenna Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Informations bibliographiques