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Maya intellectual renaissance : identity, representation, and leadership /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montejo, Victor, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Maya philosophy.
Mayas > Ethnic identity.
Mayas > Intellectual life.
Latin America > Social life and customs.
Latin America > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.