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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... Maya ethnic markers: Indians wear typical dress (traje), Ladinos donot ... Maya movement. As the chapters that follow make clear,Maya cultural activism iscentrally ... community. Indeed, the fluidity of Guatemala's ethnic boundariesis ...
... community where heis not well known (ideallyalargecity) and integrate himself into theLadino community. The ... Maya culturehave failed. There are twice as manyIndians in Guatemala now as at the timeof the Spanish invasion (Lovell and ...
... community based allegiances that have long characterized Maya social identity (seeTax 1937; Wolf1957; Warren 1978;Watanabe 1992). The movement promotes association basedon linguistic groupsand then, building on that base, hopes to ...
... Maya document (seealso Warren,chap. 5,for a discussion of Maya translatingearly documents). Irma Otzoy (1988, chap. 9 this volume) haswritten on the roleof Maya women and their traditional dress incontemporary Guatemalan society and ...
... Maya speakerswriting inSpanish into fluid English. Toward this endwe ... group. Thenoun mestizajerefers tothe crossing of races orcultures, while the verb ladinizerefers tothe unidirectional adoption of Ladino cultural traits by Maya ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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