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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... written by both Maya and Spaniards , to deconstruct the history of contact espoused within the Western tradition in general and by Ladino academics in specific . Alfonso Tzaquitzal Zapeta ( 1993 ) has translated the colonial document ...
... written forms of Spanish and a Mayan language . The importance of strong oral language skills emerges in public situations . There is an art to public speaking in Guatemala that does not depend solely on education , although , for ...
... ( written in K'ichee ' in the nineteenth century ) . In the twentieth century there have been individu- als who have known how to read and write in Mayan languages , but the knowledge has not been widespread and has not led to any ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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