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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... assimilation: And then the speech ofthetribes changed; Their speech became different, No longerclearly Could theyunderstand eachother When they cameto Tula, And there they separated. (Edmonson 1971: 163) By A.D. 1250, the highland Maya ...
... assimilation as the answer to Guatemala's ethnic conflicts. When it started in the 1960s, Guatemala's guerrilla movement,ledby disenfranchised Ladinolabor activists andleftist intellectuals, wasbased in the eastern part of the country ...
... Assimilating theMaya isnotthesame as assimilating a civilized peoplewitha vibrant culture. It is assimilating a people without culture orwithadying, residual,and oppressed culture. Ladinizationdoes not harmthe Maya, it gives themthe ...
... assimilated language) wasspoken inbothGuatemala and Mexico. The parts of Mexico,Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala that encompass the Maya nations have beencalledel mundo maya, the Maya world. From a demographic viewpoint, there are.
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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