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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... give readers a sense of the text . Passages are numbered following Brinton , Recinos , and Villacorta . I am departing from the group's strategy for Spanish translation by using the Kaqchikel verse structure , which marks the genre of ...
... give a workshop to his organi- zation . They accepted and flew to Mérida to give the workshop , in which all fourteen participants spoke Yukatek . The contents were essentially the same as in the first two Antigua workshops : the first ...
... Give them to the maidens [ Xtah and Xpuch ] ... [ so they will take them to their lords ] ... give them the cloaks to try on , the maidens were told ... [ the lords ] were shown the figured cloaks . : one with a jaguar , one with an ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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