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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... movement among the Maya of Guatemala , variously called Maya nationalism ( Smith 1991 ) , the pan - Maya movement ( Fischer 1993 , 1996 ) , the Maya revitalization movement ( Wilson 1993 ; Sturm , this volume ) , or , simply , the Maya ...
... movements.20 These movements have global ties and transnational languages yet quite localized and culturally specific goals . Here the Maya movement would be considered a rights - based move- ment and would be further contextualized in ...
... movements . Fishman notes the Yiddishist movement in Eastern Europe around the time of the Second World War and the Table 2. Classification of the Sample Population by Intergenerational Language The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement 171.
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