Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities

by Edward F. Fischer and John M. Watanabe

Book Overview

This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist as discussant to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and Guatemala. Rather than presume a romanticized, timeless Maya culture-or the globalized predicaments of transnationalized Maya imaginings-this seminar took its cue from contemporary Maya cultural activists who derive their enduring sense of Mayan-ness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618360
• ISBN13: 9781930618367
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 9.2"