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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... 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 ...
... example, is central to the Maya movement, and treatment of it providesacommon thread inthe diverse chaptersofthis book. Language haslong been recognizedasa powerful political tool(see Fishman 1988), anditisbeing mobilized by groups ...
... example,the Mayan languagesare oftencriticized inGuatemala as “incomplete” or“defective” because theirmany loanwords from Spanish—easily recognized bySpanish speakers—are seen asevidence of inferior expressive capacity. However, Maya ...
... the misleading spellings based onSpanish orthography, changing, for example, the Spanish qu and c tokto represent the phoneme /k/ (see López Raquec 1989 fora complete review of alphabets used to write Mayan languages). As a.
... example and in lively discussions,to eschew simplistic interpretations andlook instead for ambiguitiesandsubtleties that are easily overlooked. Fischer would further liketothank Munro Edmonson, BillHarrison, Pakal B'alam, Mareike ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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