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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... of contemporaryMaya activism. Takenas a whole,the volumeis an elaborately constructeddialogue between Maya and Western scholars over the future of Guatemalan studies and of the Maya people. John M. Watanabe has called for just such a ...
... of its convictions enough to address itsothers directly and to admit their replies.... Maya anthropologists would bring to anthropologya personal, pragmatic, andpassionate engagementthatgoes beyond scientific objectivity or literary ...
... of fieldwork and scholarly representation. Over the last few decades a growing number of anthropologists haveadopteda stance of advocacy, seeing their role aspresenting and interpreting indigenouspolitical agendasfor a wider audience ...
... of theunified alphabet) and also subjective changes in how thelinguistic phenomena of Guatemala are understood. For example,the Mayan languagesare oftencriticized inGuatemala as “incomplete” or“defective” because theirmany loanwords ...
... of elements of Maya culture while promoting governmental reform within the framework of the current (1985)Guatemalan ... ofMaya cultureto promote asobjects of ethnic pride becomes fueled in partby a craving toestablish concrete links ...
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