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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... pan - Maya move- ment , seek no less than a major redefinition of Maya identity through subsuming traditional community - based allegiances to a unified pan- Maya culture.1 By mobilizing certain common elements of indigenous culture ...
... Maya . Maya leaders are using the information they gather to develop an ideology that emphasizes self - determination , cultural pride , and pan - Maya unity . They believe that a rejuvenated Maya culture can peacefully lead Guatemala ...
... pan - Maya movement is an important first step toward rectifying structural inequalities in Guate- malan society that have impeded balanced economic growth . Maya leaders repeatedly stress that culturally appropriate and sustainable ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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