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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... oftheir convictions would remind all anthropologists that anthropology sometimes does matter inthereal world ... of their ethnic group as a whole, thoughthey themselves probably would not compartmentalize their social roles ina like ...
... of their culture and history, and Maya scholars are resentful of the manner in which their culture and history have been appropriated by the nonMaya academy, noting thatmuch “objective” and seemingly apolitical scholarshiphas had ...
... of their history. Sam Colop(1991, chap.6this volume) references a number of colonial documents, written by both Maya andSpaniards, to deconstruct the historyof contactespoused within the Western tradition in general andby Ladino ...
... of their scholarshipfor indigenous advocacy (Wright 1988); many Guatemalanists choose to pursue their politicalagendas through U.S. and European solidarity groups, which aremost often aligned with the Guatemalan popular resistance ...
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