Maya Cultural Activism in GuatemalaEdward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown University of Texas Press, 28 juin 2010 - 255 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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... Ladino elites, for example, often cite the violenceofprecontact Maya society andthe uncivilized nature ofmodern Indian culture as justifications of the brutality ofcontemporary counterinsurgency campaigns directed againstthe Maya people ...
... the accompanying phenotypicfeatures (e.g., lighthairand skin, thin lips, narrow nose, etc.) arehighly valuedby Ladino elites. Map 2. Language Groups of Guatemala The study of ethnic relations in Guatemala has traditionally relied.
... Ladino. In defining these boundaries, scholars have focused on the distinctiveness of cultural elements unique to each group, going so far as to characterize ethnic categories as “inverse images” of one another (Hawkins 1984). The ...
... Ladino in opposition to Maya ethnic markers: Indians wear typical dress (traje), Ladinos donot; Indians speak an indigenous language, Ladinos speak Spanish; Indians practiceindigenous New Worldfolkloric culture, Ladinos practice ...
... Ladino culturaltraits and identify themselves as Ladino, but also thatothers recognize them as Ladino.Thus itis often hard foraMaya to successfully makethe transition to being Ladino while livinginhis home community. If, however,his ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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