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Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice

Autor Edward F. Fischer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2001
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002
As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest movements. Exploring how this process is playing out in Guatemala, this book presents an innovative synthesis of the local and global factors that have led Guatemala's indigenous Maya peoples to assert and defend their cultural identity and distinctiveness within the dominant Hispanic society.
Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how ethnic identities are constructed and expressed in the modern world. At the global level, he shows how structural shifts in international relations have opened new venues of ethnic expression for Guatemala's majority Maya population. At the local level, he examines the processes of identity construction in two Kaqchikel Maya towns, Tecpán and Patzún, and shows how divergent local norms result in different conceptions and expressions of Maya-ness, which nonetheless share certain fundamental similarities with the larger pan-Maya project. Tying these levels of analysis together, Fischer argues that open-ended Maya "cultural logics" condition the ways in which Maya individuals (national leaders and rural masses alike) creatively express their identity in a rapidly changing world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292725348
ISBN-10: 0292725345
Pagini: 303
Ilustrații: 15 b&w photographs, 7 maps, 21 charts &graphs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Context of Study
    • 1. Maya Culture and Identity Politics
    • 2. Tecpán and Patzún
  • Part II: Global Processes and Pan-Maya Identity Politics
    • 3. Guatemalan Political Economies and the World System
    • 4. The Rise of Pan-Maya Activism
    • 5. Constructing a Pan-Maya Identity in a Postmodern World
  • Part III: Maya Identity as Lived Experience in Tecpán and Patzún
    • 6. Souls, Socialization, and the Kaqchikel Self
    • 7. Hearth, Kin, and Communities
    • 8. Local Forms of Ethnic Resistance
    • 9. Economic Change and Cultural Continuity
  • Part IV: Conclusion
    • 10. Convergent Strategies and Cultural Logics
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

Clearly written and well organized, this book combines the best of traditional ethnography with a realistic context of political economy and insights about what culture is and how it works.

Descriere

Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how