ISBN:
0292797052
,
9780292797055
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 236 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Maya intellectual renaissance
DDC:
305.897/42
Keywords:
Maya philosophy
;
Mayas Ethnic identity
;
Mayas Intellectual life
;
Latin America ; Ethnic relations
;
Latin America ; Social life and customs
;
Maya philosophy
;
Mayas ; Ethnic identity
;
Mayas ; Intellectual life
;
Electronic books
;
Latin America Social life and customs
;
Latin America Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Maya Identity and Interethnic Relations -- Chapter 2: Pan-Mayanism: The Complexity of Maya Culture and the Process of Self-Representation -- Chapter 3: Representation via Ethnography: Mapping the Maya Image in a Guatemalan Primary-School Social-Studies Textbook -- Chapter 4: The Multiplicity of Maya Voices: Maya Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation -- Chapter 5: Truth, Human Rights, and Representation: The Case of Rigoberta Menchú -- Chapter 6: The Ethnohistory of Maya Leadership -- Chapter 7: Theoretical Basis and Strategies for Maya Leadership -- Chapter 8: Maya Ways of Knowing: Modern Maya and the Elders -- Chapter 9: Leadership and Maya Intellectuality -- Chapter 10: Indigenous Rights, Security, and Democracy in the Americas: The Guatemalan Situation -- Chapter 11: The Twenty-first Century and the Future of the Maya in Guatemala -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionMaya identity and interethnic relations -- Pan-Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self-representation -- Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary-school social-studies textbook -- The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self-representation -- Truth, human rights, and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchú -- The ethnohistory of Maya leadership -- Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership -- Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders -- Leadership and Maya intellectuality -- Indigenous rights, security, and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation -- The twenty-first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index
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