Maya intellectual renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : identity, representation, and leadership / / Victor D. Montejo

• Autore: Montejo Victor <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.897/42
• Soggetto topico: Mayas - Intellectual life; Mayas - Ethnic identity; Maya philosophy
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Ethnic relations; Latin America Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references p. ([209]-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Maya intellectual renaissance
• ISBN: 0-292-79705-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452245903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.