Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala : indigeneity in transition /

Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala : indigeneity in transition /

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Author / Creator:	Metz, Brent E.
Imprint:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Chorti Indians -- History. Chorti Indians -- Social conditions. Chorti Indians -- Politics and government. Chorti Indians Manners and customs Guatemala -- Social life and customs. Guatemala Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157961

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ISBN:	9780826338815 082633881X 0826338801 9780826338808 1283571196 9781283571197 9786613883643 6613883646
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-339) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Metz, Brent E. Ch'orti'-Maya survival in eastern Guatemala. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006 0826338801

Table of Contents:

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.