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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... assimilation . Through assimilation the perpetuator of Spanish colonialism ( the Ladino ) con- verts the victim ( the Maya ) into the cause of the colonial dilemma and prescribes the Maya's death in order to solve " the Indian problem ...
... assimilation may be summarized as follows : A. The theses of ladinization hold possible the conversion of the Indian into a Ladino through the change of external ethnic indicators . This is false , because ethnic assimilation cannot be ...
... Assimilation promotes the loss of our distinctive dress . Most Maya males from the central part of the country have lost their distinctive dress . In the northwest , men better maintain the use of their dress , though centuries - old ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
Figures | 18 |
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