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
grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to
reconsider their concepts of nationalism, community, and
identity.
Editors Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown have brought
together essays by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on
contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in
Guatemala today. Supplementing scholarly analysis of Mayan cultural
activism is a position statement originating within the movement
and more wide-ranging and personal reflections by anthropologists
and linguists who have worked with the Maya over the years. Among
the broader issues that come in for examination are the complex
relations between U.S. Mayanists and the Mayan cultural movement,
efforts to promote literacy in Mayan languages, the significance of
woven textiles and native dress, the relations between language and
national identity, and the cultural meanings that the present-day
Maya have encountered in ancient Mayan texts and hieroglyphic
writing.
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