Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala

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Titel: Indigenous Movements and Their Critics : Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala

Enthält: 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

Beteiligte: Warren, Kay B. [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2021]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (334 p.); 1 table 2 maps 19 line illus. 56 halftones

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780691225302

ISBN: 9780691225302

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Schlagwörter: Indians of Central America Guatemala Government relations ; Mayas Guatemala Ethnic identity ; Mayas Guatemala Government relations ; Mayas Guatemala Politics and government ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Black Legend ; Catholic Action ; Commission on Sacred Sites ; Concepción ; Florentine Codex ; Hispanization ; Iximulew ; Ladinoization ; Ladinos ; agrarian reform ; amnesty program ; anthropology ; antiracism narratives ; assimilation ; campesinos ; cooperative movement ; cultural capital ; culture loss ; democracy ; [...]

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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 as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics. The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class

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