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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... Cojtí Cuxil , chap . 2 ) . Maya activists also employ international treaties to justify their agenda , particularly Convention 169 of the International Labor Office and the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights . This strategy ...
... Cojtí Cuxil has written that the government censuses " do not provide trustworthy data because their goal is not to reflect the demographic reality of the Indian nationalities but rather to produce results that conform to Ladino ...
... : Derechos específicos del pueblo maya ( COMG 1991 ) . SPEM , together with the Centro de Documentación e Investigación Maya ( CEDIM ) , published the complete report from Chapter The Politics of Maya Revindication Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil.
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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