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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... social institutions in that country is marked by a plethora of acronyms, the juggling of which can be problematic even to the most astute scholar. For that reason we have compiled the following handy reference list of the most common ...
... social roles ina like fashion.Indeed, there is a general reluctance on the part of theseMaya scholars/ activists/individuals toerectclear boundariesbetween thediscrete (from a Western scientific point ofview)social domains inwhich ...
... social systems of which they are (willingly or not) a part. Nor are they unaware of the power cultural analyses ... social sciences. Due tothe structural position they occupy in Guatemalan society, the Maya have needed, accepted, and ...
... social analysis and primary document, for it tells us about the workings of Guatemalan society while givingusa rare insight into contemporary,urban Maya worldview and philosophy. Whilethis bookexaminesthe particular caseoftheMaya in ...
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