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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... leadership sees 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 ...
... leadership forced himinto exile inPanama, whereheis reported tobe living alifeof luxury after coming intooffice nearly bankrupt. Inan equally surprising turnof events, Ramiro deLeón Carpio, thenthegovernment's human rights ombudsman,was ...
... leaders were killed becauseof their perceived sympathies with revolutionary politics.4 Focusingfirst on nationalrecognition and legal change, Maya organizations havebeen ableto carve out asmall space inwhich towork within Guatemala's ...
... leaders of the Maya movement aresimply ambitious Indians taking advantage of the current international politicalclimate, which is sympathetictothe needs ofindigenous peoples,securing for themselvesandfamily memberslucrative contracts ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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