Maya Cultural Activism in GuatemalaEdward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown 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. |
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... Popol Vuh is written here as Popol Wuj , although in chapter 12 Nora England argues for an alternative spelling . In translating the articles written in Spanish for this volume we have had to tackle a large number of semantic pitfalls ...
... Popol Wuj because this sacred Mayan text was copied and translated by a Spanish priest . Even a university vice chancellor wrote that the Popol Wuj is not a Maya work but a mestizo one : " The author or authors were already Mestizos ...
... Popol Wuj , the Título de los señores de Totonicapán , and the Annals of the Kaqchikels one finds passages that make reference to Maya dress ( e.g. , Recinos 1950 : 221 , 65 , fig . 1 ) . The mythological origin of the designs and ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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