Maya intellectual renaissance : identity representation and leadership Introduction Maya identity and interethnic relations Pan Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self representation Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary school social studies textbook The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self representation Truth human rights and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchú The ethnohistory of Maya leadership Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders Leadership and Maya intellectuality Indigenous rights security and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation The twenty first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala