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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... areas . Preferential policies are needed to support the development of poorer regions , such as providing concessions to firms that locate in rural areas . The poorest regions are precisely those where the majority of the Maya live ...
... areas ; in rural areas it invested more among Ladinos than among Maya . Thus for each inhabitant of the rural Ladino areas of Jalapa , Jutiapa , and Chiquimula , the state spent an average of 7.22 quetzales , while for each inhabitant ...
... areas of concern : political stability , economic stability , psycho - social stability , and military stabil- ity ( AVANSCO 1988 : 4 ) . Under this plan the army first instigated a system of civil self - defense patrols in rural areas ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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