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Informationen zum Autor By Victor D. Montejo Klappentext This is the first book to be published outside of Guatemala where a Mayan writer other than Rigoberta Menchu discusses the history and problems of the country. It collects essays Montejo has written over the past ten years that address three critical issues facing Mayan peoples today: identity! representation! and Mayan leadership. Montejo is deeply invested in furthering the discussion of the effectiveness of Mayan leadership because he believes that self-evaluation is necessary for the movement to advance. He also criticizes the racist treatment that Mayans experience! and advocates for the construction of a more pluralistic Guatemala that recognizes cultural diversity and abandons assimilation. This volume maps a new political alternative for the future of the movement that promotes inter-ethnic collaboration alongside a reverence for Mayan culture. Zusammenfassung A leading Mayan intellectual and activist discusses the Maya movement and the future of Guatemala. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Maya Identity and Interethnic RelationsChapter 2. Pan-Mayanism: The Complexity of Maya Culture and the Process of Self-RepresentationChapter 3. Representation via Ethnography: Mapping the Maya Image in a Guatemalan Primary-School Social-Studies TextbookChapter 4. The Multiplicity of Maya Voices: Maya Leadership and the Politics of Self-RepresentationChapter 5. Truth, Human Rights, and Representation: The Case of Rigoberta MenchúChapter 6. The Ethnohistory of Maya LeadershipChapter 7. Theoretical Basis and Strategies for Maya LeadershipChapter 8. Maya Ways of Knowing: Modern Maya and the EldersChapter 9. Leadership and Maya IntellectualityChapter 10. Indigenous Rights, Security, and Democracy in the Americas: The Guatemalan SituationChapter 11. The Twenty-first Century and the Future of the Maya in GuatemalaNotesBibliographyIndex
