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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... Bibliography Index Maps 1. Departments and MajorCitiesof Guatemala 2. Language Groups of Guatemala 3. Escuelas Mayas in Guatemala Figures Chapter 7 1. AfterCOMG (1991) 2. ALMG logo 3. From the logo of Majawil Q'ij 4. After B'alam.
... group, and advocates forthewellbeing of their ethnic group as a whole, thoughthey themselves probably would not compartmentalize their social roles ina like fashion.Indeed, there is a general reluctance on the part of theseMaya scholars ...
... activism through theirrhetoric of multivocality andrelational values,which denies authority to individual representations. Nativepeoples aroundthe world (be they peasants, ethnic groups, or, more simply, Others) are no longer unaware of.
... groups throughout the Easternbloc were deniedtheir own historiesas cultural differences were subjugated to Sovietstyle nationalism. In Guatemala, the United Statesand its allies (mostnotably Israel and Germany), intheir battleagainst ...
Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown. groups around the world, from the Croats (who, in their ethnic cleansing movement, employ historical linguistics to rid their language of Serbian influence) to African Americans (who are creating new ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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