Indigenous Movements and Their Critics : : Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala / / Kay B. Warren.
In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 1 table 2 maps 19 line illus. 56 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription of Maya Languages and Personal Names
- Introduction. Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence
- One. Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right
- Two. Coalitions and the Peace Process
- Three. In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist
- Four. Civil War: Enemies Without and Within
- Five. Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony
- Six. Interrogating Official History
- Seven Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest
- Eight "Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community
- Nine Indigenous Activism across Generations
- Conclusions Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity"
- Appendix One Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Appendix Two Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists
- Glossary Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index