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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... authors have been translated from Spanish ( which is their second language ) , and the formal rhetorical style employed by most Maya writers has been left largely intact . To the North American , the Maya style may at first seem a bit ...
... author or authors were already Mestizos . They already knew Spanish , although not well " ( Juárez - Paz 1992 : 69 ) . The original Popol Wuj was a hiero- glyphic book . It was transcribed in K'iche ' with Latin characters in the late ...
... authors of the new literacy , must choose between disparate lexical items as well . " Cat , " for example , may be represented as mis , mes , lux , syan , or si'an . PRONEBI has established a " lexical " policy , offering the most ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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