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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala

Kenneth Maxwell, Kay Barbara Warren

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription of Maya Languages and Personal NamesIntroduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence31Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right332Coalitions and the Peace Process523In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist694Civil War: Enemies Without and Within865Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony1136Interrogating Official History1327Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest1488Each Mind Is a World: Person, Authority, and Community1639Indigenous Activism across Generations177Conclusions: Tracing the Invisible Thread of Ethnicity194App. 1Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples211App. 2Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists215Glossary: Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms217Notes221Bibliography251Index281

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription of Maya Languages and Personal NamesIntroduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence31Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right332Coalitions and the Peace Process523In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist694Civil War: Enemies Without and Within865Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony1136Interrogating Official History1327Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest1488Each Mind Is a World: Person, Authority, and Community1639Indigenous Activism across Generations177Conclusions: Tracing the Invisible Thread of Ethnicity194App. 1Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples211App. 2Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists215Glossary: Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms217Notes221Bibliography251Index281

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription of Maya Languages and Personal NamesIntroduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence31Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right332Coalitions and the Peace Process523In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist694Civil War: Enemies Without and Within865Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony1136Interrogating Official History1327Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest1488Each Mind Is a World: Person, Authority, and Community1639Indigenous Activism across Generations177Conclusions: Tracing the Invisible Thread of Ethnicity194App. 1Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples211App. 2Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists215Glossary: Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms217Notes221Bibliography251Index281

Key concepts: Maya, Indigenous, Political science, Social movement, Ethnology, Geography, Development economics, History

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