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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... percentages of Indians since 1870 ( Early 1982 ) , dropping below 50 percent of the total population in 1964 ( Tzian 1994 ) and officially reported as being 41.9 percent of the population in 1981 and 41.86 percent in 1987 ( INE 1988 ...
... percent of the Guatemalan population , then 60 percent of congressional representatives and 60 percent of those repre- senting Guatemala in international organizations should be Maya . Furthermore , if the K'iche ' constitute 20 percent ...
... percent but increased to 0.1 percent in 1986 and 3.9 percent in 1989 ( Poitevin 1993 : 39 ) . Though this modest growth continued in 1990 , it was offset by a high inflation rate , which reached its highest point ever in December 1990 ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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