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 Education: A Historicaland ContemporaryAnalysis of Mayan Language Education Policy Julia Becker Richards and Michael Richards Bibliography Index Maps 1. Departments and MajorCitiesof Guatemala 2. Language Groups of Guatemala 3.
... Mayan Writers of Guatemala) ALMG Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (Academy of Mayan Languages of Guatemala) CEDIM Centro de Documentación e Investigación Maya (Center of Mayan Documentation and Research) CIRMA Centro de ...
... linguistics to rid their language of Serbian influence) to African Americans (who are creating new personal names based on morphemes borrowedfrom variousAfrican languages). Maya activists seek objective linguisticchanges inGuatemala ...
... Maya, the most conspicuous link tothat past that is indisputably non SpanishisfoundinMayan languages. The Mayan languages representa uniquelyauthentic cultural possession fortheir speakers. As abanner for ethnic pride, theMayan languages ...
... Maya activists have successfully petitioned the government to officializethe unifiedalphabet forwriting Mayan languages proposed by Maya groups; they havebeen instrumental in working forreform within the structure of the Ministry of ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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