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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics : Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala /

In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Kay B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Transcription of Maya Languages and Personal Names
  • Introduction. Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence
  • One. Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right
  • Two. Coalitions and the Peace Process
  • Three. In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist
  • Four. Civil War: Enemies Without and Within
  • Five. Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony
  • Six. Interrogating Official History
  • Seven Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest
  • Eight "Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community
  • Nine Indigenous Activism across Generations
  • Conclusions Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity"
  • Appendix One Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Appendix Two Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists
  • Glossary Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index