Maya Intellectual Renaissance : : Identity, Representation, and Leadership / / Victor D. Montejo.

When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Maya Identity and Interethnic Relations
  • Chapter 2 Pan-Mayanism
  • Chapter 3 Representation via Ethnography
  • Chapter 4 The Multiplicity of Maya Voices
  • Chapter 5 Truth, Human Rights, and Representation
  • Chapter 6 The Ethnohistory of Maya Leadership
  • Chapter 7 Theoretical Basis and Strategies for Maya Leadership
  • Chapter 8 Maya Ways of Knowing
  • Chapter 9 Leadership and Maya Intellectuality
  • Chapter 10 Indigenous Rights, Security, and Democracy in the Americas
  • Chapter 11 The Twenty-first Century and the Future of the Maya in Guatemala
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index