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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... resistance as subversive and anti- Guatemalan and must stop oppressing it . Article 45 of the constitution recognizes that " resistance by the people for the protection and defense of constitutional rights is legitimate . " Since ...
Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown. 5 . Reading History as Resistance : Maya Public Intellectuals in Guatemala Kay B. Warren ( Princeton University ) Todorov ( 1984 ) ... Resistance: Maya Public Intellectuals in Guatemala Kay B Warren.
... resistance . In a larger sense , Maya politics includes land , identity ( and all that it implies - culture , history , and descent ) , as well as the right to self- determination . Thus the historical , artistic , and cultural aspects ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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