Pluralizing ethnography : comparison and representation in Maya cultures, histories, and identities

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Pluralizing ethnography : comparison and representation in Maya cultures, histories, and identities

edited by John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer

(School of American Research advanced seminar series)

School of American Research Press , J. Currey, 2004

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Bibliography: p. 301-342

Includes index

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: uk, cloth ISBN 9780852559703

内容説明

The world has two dominant images of the Maya: one as the builders of magnificent, but now ruined, temples and cities in the rainforests of Central America; the other as a militant peasantry, such as the Zapatistas of Chiapas, confronting the inequalities of the modern state. Maya activists draw quite explicitly on an historical consciousness of five hundred years of cultural resilience. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

目次

Introduction: emergent anthropologies & pluricultural ethnography in two postcolonial nations by John M. Watanabe & Edward F. Fischer - Culture history in national context: nineteenth-century Maya under Mexican & Guatemalan Rule by John M. Watanabe - Linguistic continuities & discontinuities in the Maya area by Victoria R. Bricker - The Summer Institute of Linguistics & the politics of Bible translation in Mexico: convergence, appropriation & consequence by Christine A. Kray - 'Everything has begun to change': appraisals of the Mexican state in Chiapas Maya discourse 1980-2000 by Gary H. Gossen - Beyond resistance & protest: the Maya quest for autonomy by June Nash - Rereading Tzotzil ethnography: recent scholarship from Chiapas, Mexico by Jan Rus - Angering the ancestors: transnationalism and economic transformation of Maya communities in western Guatemala by Victor Montejo - The Janus face of globalization: economic production & cultural reproduction in highland Guatemala by Edward F. Fischer - Continuities, imputed & infered by Richard G. Fox - References
巻冊次

: us, cloth ISBN 9781930618350

内容説明

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 identity. In 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.
巻冊次

: us, pbk ISBN 9781930618367

内容説明

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 identity. In 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.

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