Mayalogue : an interactionist theory of indigenous cultures /
Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | SUNY series, trens-indigenous decolonial critiques.
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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.