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