ISBN:
1-930618-36-0
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978-1-930618-36-7
,
1-930618-35-2
,
978-1-930618-35-0
,
0-85255-971-2
,
978-0-85255-971-0
,
0-85255-970-4
,
978-0-85255-970-3
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 353 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [64]
Keywords:
Maya Historiographie
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Soziales Leben
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Folklore
;
Ethnologie
;
Mexiko
;
Guatemala
;
Mittelamerika
;
Soziale Bedingungen
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Politik
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Konflikt, sozialer
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist as discussant to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and Guatemala. Rather than presume a romanticized, timeless Maya culture-or the globalized predicaments of transnationalized Maya imaginings-this seminar took its cue from contemporary Maya cultural activists who derive their enduring sense of Mayan-ness from a historical consciousness of five hundred years of cultural resilience. The contributors evaluate the history of Maya peoples and Maya anthropology by examining language, religion, political attitudes and activism, ethnographic traditions, and the relationship between economic change, migration, and cultural identityIn comparing Maya peoples across Mexico and Guatemala, the contributors` emphasis on culture recovers intermediate linkages between the personal and the political, the local and the global. Their work enables a controlled cross-cultural comparison across national boundaries and histories that in turn illuminates the articulation between locally constructed meanings and global transformations. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- 1. Introduction: Emergent Anthropologies and Pluricultural Ethnography in Two Postcolonial Nations, John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer -- 2. Culture History in National Contexts: Nineteenth-Century Maya Under Mexican and Guatemalan Rule, John M. Watanabe -- 3. Linguistic Continuities and Discontinuities in the Maya Area, Victoria R. Bricker -- 4. The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Politics of Bible Translation in Mexico: Convergence, Appropriation, and Consequence, Christine A. Kray -- 5. "Everything Has Begun to Change": Appraisals of the Mexican State in Chiapas Maya Discourse, 1980-2000, Gary H. Gossen -- 6. Beyond Resistance and Protest: Maya Quest for Autonomy in Mexico, June Nash -- 7. Rereading Tzotzil Ethnography: Recent Scholarship from Chiapas, Mexico, Jan Rus -- 8. Angering the Ancestors: Transnationalism and Economic Transformation of Maya Communities in Western Guatemala, Victor Montejo -- 9. The Janus Face of Globalization: Economic Production and Cultural Reproduction in Highland Guatemala, Edward F. Fischer -- 10. Continuities, Imputed and Inferred, Richard G. Fox -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 301-342"School of American Research advanced seminar Pluralizing Ethnograhy, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 22-26, 2000" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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