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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... leaders and activists and propelled what Shelton Davis calls a " sociological awakening ' of the Guatemalan Indian population " ( Davis 1988 : 16 ; cf. Berryman 1984 ; Falla 1978a , 1988 ) . In the early 1970s the role of language as a ...
... leaders strategized to amass power , the envious Tuquche ' leader , Kai ' Junapu , confronted the leaders Oxlajuuj Tz'ii ' and Kab'lajuj Tijax , " who did not want war / their daughters and sons suffered " ( passage 100 ) . The battle ...
... leaders sought the anonymity of the masses . But as the violence continued , new leaders emerged , often in the place of their slain predecessors , and these leaders decided that silence was neither golden nor a protection . They made a ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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