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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... symbols ( Warren 1978 , 1992 , 1993 ; Watanabe 1992 , 1995 ; Wilson 1995 ) . This new approach recognizes the essential continuity of the Maya cultural tradition while noting that " new criteria of identity gravitate around traditional ...
... symbol of physical and cultural survival after the contact with the Spanish . Thus , the specific historical origin of an element does not determine whether or not that element is Maya . To the contrary , the incorporation of new symbols ...
... symbolism of clothing is expressed in the Popol Wuj when B'alam Kitze ' , B'alam Aq'ab ' , Majukutaj , and Iki B'alam were ... symbols of jaguars and eagles , in contrast to those of yellow jackets and wasps , pleased the lords and were ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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