Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala : Indigeneity in transition / Brent E. Metz.
2006
F1465.2.C5 M48 2006eb
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Title
Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala : Indigeneity in transition / Brent E. Metz.
Author
ISBN
9780826338815 (electronic bk.)
082633881X (electronic bk.)
1283571196
9781283571197
9786613883643
6613883646
0826338801
9780826338808
082633881X (electronic bk.)
1283571196
9781283571197
9786613883643
6613883646
0826338801
9780826338808
Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
F1465.2.C5 M48 2006eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)810933509
Summary
"Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious Indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned."
"During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a thirty-six-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures."
"From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their Indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity."--Jacket
"During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a thirty-six-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures."
"From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their Indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity."--Jacket
Note
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 1995.
"During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a thirty-six-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures."
"From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their Indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity."--Jacket
"During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a thirty-six-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures."
"From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their Indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity."--Jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-339) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: What's Indigenous, what's Maya?
In search of Indigeneity in eastern Guatemala
History of the Jocotán Parish, 1524-1930
Las ruinas
A sense of centrality
The dis-integration of subsistence cultures
Excluded from "nuestra patria Guatemala," our fatherland
New opportunities, identities, and challenges in the global market
The Ch'orti' Maya movement
Conclusion: Indigenous Maya Ch'orti's.
In search of Indigeneity in eastern Guatemala
History of the Jocotán Parish, 1524-1930
Las ruinas
A sense of centrality
The dis-integration of subsistence cultures
Excluded from "nuestra patria Guatemala," our fatherland
New opportunities, identities, and challenges in the global market
The Ch'orti' Maya movement
Conclusion: Indigenous Maya Ch'orti's.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Metz, Brent E. Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006
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