Maya Intellectual Renaissance Identity, Representation, and Leadership

Name: Maya Intellectual Renaissance Identity, Representation, and Leadership
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ISBN: 9780292709393

ISBN-10: 0292709390

ISBN-13: 9780292709393

Edition: 2005

Authors: Victor D. Montejo

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Montejo analyses the process of cultural, economic and religious revitalisation which the Mayas of Guatemala have enjoyed over the latter part of the twentieth century and discusses the Guatemalan government's attempts to assimilate the Mayan culture into the mainstream culture.

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

VICTOR MONTEJO is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis.



Acknowledgments


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 Menchu



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index