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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... 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 : 143 ) . Lovell and Lutz ( 1992 ) , however , present revised data showing the Maya to be 60 ...
... Maya population , then 20 percent of the Maya representatives should be K'iche ' . The smallest Maya nations should be allocated at least one congressional representative . Article 157 of the current constitution stipulates that ...
... Maya unity ( this would require large populations to learn a second Mayan language and would be prejudicial to the ... Maya community and language , as well as to the entire Maya population in opposition to the Ladino population . This ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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