Description
Book SynopsisEssays on the pan-Maya movement by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala.
Trade ReviewThe book effectively captures nascent efforts by largely urban, university-educated, and professionally trained Maya to reclaim the rightful place of all Maya, rural peasant and city professional alike, as full but nonetheless Maya citizens of Guatemala.... a rich case study detailing the inseparability of culture and politics and the cross-cutting affinities of ethnicity, class, and ideology in indigenous rights movements emerging throughout contemporary Latin America. * American Anthropologist *
Table of Contents
- Acronyms
- 1. Introduction: Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown)
- 2. The Politics of Maya Revindication (Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil)
- 3. Induced Culture Change as a Strategy for Socioeconomic Development: The Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala (Edward F. Fischer)
- 4. Maya Culture and the Politics of Development (Raxche' [Demetrio Rodriguez Guaján])
- 5. Reading History as Resistance: Maya Public Intellectuals in Guatemala (Kay B. Warren
- 6. The Discourse of Concealment and 1992 (Enrique Sam Colop)
- 7. Old Writing and New Messages: The Role of Hieroglyphic Literacy in Maya Cultural Activism (Circe Sturm)
- 8. The Workshop for Maya on Hieroglyphic Writing (Linda Schele and Nikolai Grube)
- 9. Maya Clothing and Identity (Irma Otzoy)
- 10. Women, Weaving, and Education in Maya Revitalization (Carol Hendrickson)
- 11. The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala (R. McKenna Brown)
- 12. The Role of Language Standardization in Revitalization (Nora C. England)
- 13. Prescriptive Grammar and Kaqchikel Revitalization (Judith M. Maxwell)
- 14. Maya Education: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Mayan Language Education Policy (Julia Becker Richards and Michael Richards)
- Bibliography
- Index
