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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... Garífuna , and the Xinca . Each group has its respective language : Spanish of the Indo- European family spoken by the Ladinos ; Garífuna of the Carib family spoken by the Afro - Guatemalans ; and Xinca of the Pipil family spoken by the ...
... Garífuna Education , and Xinca Education . This restructuring would necessarily correspond to the number of Guatemalan peoples since each people has the right to freely organize the education and professional formation of its popula ...
... Garífuna people ; it is a nationalism that wages an active struggle of cultural revitalization that is involved with the social , the economic , and the political , but passive from the point of view of being neither warlike nor ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | 1 |
Bibliography 223 | 7 |
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