Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala / / ed. by R. McKenna Brown, Edward F. Fischer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• HerausgeberIn: Brown, R. McKenna,; Fischer, Edward F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala -- 2. The Politics of Maya Revindication -- 3. Induced Culture Change as a Strategy for Socioeconomic Development: The Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala -- 4. Maya Culture and the Politics of Development -- 5. Reading History as Resistance: Maya Public Intellectuals in Guatemala -- 6. The Discourse of Concealment and 1992 -- 7. Old Writing and New Messages: The Role of Hieroglyphic Literacy in Maya Cultural Activism -- 8. The Workshop for Maya on Hieroglyphic Writing -- 9. Maya Clothing and Identity -- 10. Women, Weaving, and Education in Maya Revitalization -- 11. The Mayan Language Loyalty Movement in Guatemala -- 12. The Role of Language Standardization in Revitalization -- 13. Prescriptive Grammar and Kaqchikel Revitalization -- 14. Maya Education: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Mayan Language Education Policy -- Bibliography -- Index