Maya intellectual renaissance : identity, representation, and leadership / / Victor D. Montejo.

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Superior document:The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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Physical Description:xxii, 236 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Maya identity and interethnic relations
  • Pan-Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self-representation
  • Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary-school social-studies textbook
  • The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self-representation
  • Truth, human rights, and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchu
  • The ethnohistory of Maya leadership
  • Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership
  • Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders
  • Leadership and Maya intellectuality
  • Indigenous rights, security, and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation
  • The twenty-first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala.