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Maya Identities and the Violence of Place - Borders Bleed (Paperback)
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Maya Identities and the Violence of Place - Borders Bleed (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2001. Exploring issues of
diversity and cross-cultural interaction and understanding, Maya
Identities and the Violence of Place offers new perspectives on
borderlands and identities, providing an important case study of
people from Latin America on the move. Examining issues of
indigeneity, diaspora, flights from physical violence and economic
repression, and efforts to remain indigenous among a proud but
beleaguered people, this book is replete with stories of movement
and change that operate as means to maintain identity. Thompson
examines how the Jacalteco Maya of Latin America form their
identities as indigenous people, despite a long tradition of
movement across the rigid constraints of borders of geography,
history, race and ethnicity. Religion, language, fiestas, and
stories of leaving and return, all serve to bond people to their
particularity. Examining the indigenous identity formations and
religious convictions among the Maya in places where brutality has
dominated the landscape and where violence is commonplace, this
book avoids dwelling on centers of culture and explains instead how
Maya concepts of identity arise from travel, contact with others,
and change. Thompson reveals the ironies of classifying as
natives', aboriginal or indigenous the many individuals and
families who have become refugees, and explores how Maya have
transcended the erroneous image of Guatemalan Indians ensconced
within borders of particular land, and how they have overstepped
popular portrayals of native peoples clinging tenaciously to their
sacred soil as their sole means of surviving culturally and
spiritually. Showing bleeding borders to be more than a recent
occurrence, Thompson argues that there has never been a time when
Maya did not have to travel in order to remain who they are.
Exploring ideas of human to land connections and how religion among
the indigenous makes change and movement possible, this book offers
invaluable insight
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