Maya intellectual renaissance : identity, representation, and leadership /
When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Maya 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.
