By Edward F. Fischer
Winner, a call extraordinary educational booklet, 2002
As rules, items, and folks circulation with expanding ease and pace throughout nationwide barriers and geographic distances, the commercial adjustments and technological advances that allow this globalization also are mockingly contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic teams, and detailed curiosity pursuits. Exploring how this strategy is taking part in out in Guatemala, this ebook provides an leading edge synthesis of the neighborhood and international elements that experience led Guatemala's indigenous Maya peoples to claim and shield their cultural identification and forte in the dominant Hispanic society.
Drawing on contemporary theories from cognitive reports, interpretive ethnography, and political economic climate, Edward F. Fischer seems at person Maya activists and native cultures, in addition to altering nationwide and foreign strength family members, to appreciate how ethnic identities are developed and expressed within the smooth global. on the international point, he exhibits how structural shifts in diplomacy have opened new venues of ethnic expression for Guatemala's majority Maya inhabitants. on the neighborhood point, he examines the techniques of id building in Kaqchikel Maya cities, Tecpán and Patzún, and exhibits how divergent neighborhood norms lead to diversified conceptions and expressions of Maya-ness, which still proportion sure basic similarities with the bigger pan-Maya undertaking. Tying those degrees of study jointly, Fischer argues that open-ended Maya "cultural logics" the ways that Maya members (national leaders and rural lots alike) creatively show their id in a speedily altering world.
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