Description
Book SynopsisA leading Mayan intellectual and activist discusses the Maya movement and the future of Guatemala.
Trade Review"This striking project will be of wide interest to scholars and students concerned with social movements and indigenous rights. The topic is important and timely, and the author is one of the most respected Mayan intellectuals and activists." Kay Warren, Director of Politics, Culture, and Identity Program, Watson Institute, and Professor of International Studies and Anthropology, Brown University
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Maya Identity and Interethnic Relations
- Chapter 2. Pan-Mayanism: The Complexity of Maya Culture and the Process of Self-Representation
- Chapter 3. Representation via Ethnography: Mapping the Maya Image in a Guatemalan Primary-School Social-Studies Textbook
- Chapter 4. The Multiplicity of Maya Voices: Maya Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation
- Chapter 5. Truth, Human Rights, and Representation: The Case of Rigoberta Menchú
- Chapter 6. The Ethnohistory of Maya Leadership
- Chapter 7. Theoretical Basis and Strategies for Maya Leadership
- Chapter 8. Maya Ways of Knowing: Modern Maya and the Elders
- Chapter 9. Leadership and Maya Intellectuality
- Chapter 10. Indigenous Rights, Security, and Democracy in the Americas: The Guatemalan Situation
- Chapter 11. The Twenty-first Century and the Future of the Maya in Guatemala
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
