Identity-Based Revitalization in the Maya Communities of Guatemala: A Focus on Dress and Language

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dc.contributorGarrard, Virginia
dc.contributorDe Lissovoy, Noah
dc.creatorMcChesney, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-28T14:32:24Z
dc.date.available2021-01-28T14:32:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractThe Maya people have lived in Central America since as early as 250 A.D. and speak 22 officially recognized languages, inhabiting what is now present-day Guatemala. These communities have for centuries been the target of subversive socioeconomic and political policies imposed by Spanish colonizers, then later the national government, and most recently were the victims of a State-led genocide in the early 1980s. However, these communities have continued to fight for the recognition of their rights and the freedom to peacefully express their culture through traditional practices of dress, language, religion, and other customs that vary geographically and between distinct ethnic groups. This work focuses primarily on revitalization efforts in dress and language since the mid-twentieth century that have sought to reverse cultural repression tactics implemented by the State and overturn social prejudices. The research is based on information from historical studies, primary sources, and a cultural anthropological study done with Maya people in Guatemala. Detailed in this work is the essence of the Maya cultural identity, the history of its suppression, and the three fronts on which the revitalization movement has been based: political mobilization, works of the Pan-Maya Movement and Maya scholars, and community-based efforts centered around education.en_US
dc.description.departmentPlan II Honors Programen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/84518
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11497
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlan II Honors Theses - Openly Availableen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectGuatemalaen_US
dc.subjectMayaen_US
dc.subjecttrajeen_US
dc.subjectMaya dressen_US
dc.subjectMaya cultureen_US
dc.subjectMayan languagesen_US
dc.subjectbilingual educationen_US
dc.subjectanthropologyen_US
dc.subjectindigenousen_US
dc.subjectindigenous rightsen_US
dc.subjectMaya movementen_US
dc.subjectMaya revitalizationen_US
dc.subjectidiomas Mayasen_US
dc.subjectlenguas Mayasen_US
dc.subjecttraje Mayaen_US
dc.subjectel movimiento Mayaen_US
dc.subjectrevitalizacion culturalen_US
dc.titleIdentity-Based Revitalization in the Maya Communities of Guatemala: A Focus on Dress and Languageen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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