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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Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown. American, the Maya style may at first seem a bit pompous: Maya authors write with the authority allowed them by their position ascultural insiders, and thus they often feel justified in making bold ...
... with the military's explicit blessing, to continue Serrano's term. Contrary to the high hopesthat his election raised, reports ofhuman rights ... The approach is twopronged: to work for the conservation and resurrection of elements of.
Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown. to work for the conservation and resurrection of elements of Maya culture while promoting governmental reform within the framework of the current (1985)Guatemalan constitutionand international law. The ...
... the workings of precontactMaya society while acting aspowerful symbols of the splendorand literacyofthat culture (see the articles by Sturm aswellas ... from their experiences during the recent (officially undeclared) civil war between the.
... and the whole staffof the Centro de Investigaciones de Mesoamérica (CIRM A) of Antigua, Guatemala, for their help in putting together this volume as they have helped countless other Mayaand foreign scholars over the years; Judith ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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