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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... tothe structural position they occupy in Guatemalan society, the Maya have needed, accepted, and benefitedfrom the assistance ofnon Maya social scientists. Yet, as is common in such relationshipsof tutelage, abreakin the connection ...
... tothe northby a large, forestcovered lowland expanse and to the southby a low, narrowstripof Pacific coastline. Ecologists classify the forests ofthe northern lowlands asquasi rainforest, because although average rainfall isabout eighty ...
... tothe Gregorian date 11 August3114 B.C. The passing of time since that date is counted in the following periods: Q'ij (1 day), Winäq(20 days), Tun (360 days), K'atun (7,200days), and B'aqtun (144,000 days).These periodsarerelated to the ...
... tothe Spanish invasion whenToltecs from theTabasco Veracruz region of Mexico entered Guatemala and eventually controlled large sections of thecentral highlands (Fox 1978). The Toltecs hadaprofound influenceon their new subjects, who ...
... tothe study of the Maya movement. As the chapters that follow make clear,Maya cultural activism iscentrally concerned with assigningnew meaningsto traditionalsymbols inan attempt to constructaunified, internally defined panMaya identity ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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