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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... ancient Maya strategies to legitimize elite control of state policy and sacred knowledge . In fact , chronicles and genealogies were often pre- sented in Spanish colonial courts in support of the rights of Maya elites to political ...
... ancient textiles have occurred at Cieneguilla , Chichén Itzá , and Río Azul.4 Of the Cieneguilla finds , Johnson writes that " the most unusual and important aspect of these ancient textiles is the method by which they were patterned ...
... ancient Maya textiles with modern weavings : " There are descendants of the ancient Maya that still weave textiles in styles suggesting that of the Tomb 19 ' shroud . ' In the Guatemalan highlands these towns would include Coban , San ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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