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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... Ladino peasants. After suffering a crushing defeat in the late 1960s, the guerrilla movement wentinto a severalyearlong hiatus, reemergingin the early 1970sinthe Indianpopulated western highlands.While the guerrillas' baseofsupport ...
... Ladino academics in specific. Alfonso Tzaquitzal Zapeta (1993) has translated the colonial document Titulo de los señores Coyoy, givinga contemporary Maya commentary on this early Maya document (seealso Warren,chap. 5,for a discussion ...
... Ladino; its use accentuates the historical cultural and biological mixing thatproduced this group. Thenoun mestizajerefers tothe crossing of races orcultures, while the verb ladinizerefers tothe unidirectional adoption of Ladino ...
... Ladino expectations: hide and minimizethe existence of theIndian population” (1990b: 36). Because ofthe changing definitions of “Indian” and “Ladino”employed insuccessive censuses (see Maxwell, chap. 13), official figures show a ...
... Ladino colonialists: • Killing an Indian is not the same as killing a man. It is killing a subhuman or an animal. • It isunfortunate that the Spanish conquistadorsandthe Guatemalanarmy have not exterminatedtheIndiansonce and for all ...
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The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala | |
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