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

By: Montejo, Victor, 1951-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies: Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxii, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Mayas -- Intellectual life | Mayas -- Ethnic identity | Maya philosophy | Latin America -- Ethnic relations | Latin America -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.897/42 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references p. ([209]-222) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.