Mayalogue : an interactionist theory of indigenous cultures /

Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montejo, VĂ­ctor, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series, trens-indigenous decolonial critiques.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : An Indigenous point of view
  • Anthropological theories and indigenous people
  • Decolonizing Maya history and cultures
  • Mayalogue : the treaty of Maya ideas : Q'inal : time, life, and existence
  • Mayalogue : from oral histories and traditions to written ethnographies
  • Native methods for documenting history : Oxlan B'en : the cyclical view of time and history
  • Mayalogue : Ohtajb'al : Maya knowledge and epistemology
  • Mayalogue, the interactionist model : humans, nature, and the supernatural world
  • The tonal or spirit bearer : human nature/animal nature or the theory of the self
  • The "Cargo system" and world maintenance
  • Mayalogue as a cosmocentric paradigm
  • World building, world maintenance, and world dismantling
  • Prophetic cycles and world renewal.