Pluralizing ethnography
Subtitle: comparison and representation in Maya cultures, histories, and identities
By: edited by John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer
Contributors: Watanabe, John M. 1952-; Fischer, Edward F., 1966-
Edition: 1st ed
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research Press; James Currey
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M; Oxford [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Mayas -- Historiography; Mayas -- Historiography; Mayas -- Social life and customs; Ethnology -- Mexico; Ethnology -- Guatemala; Mexico -- Social life and customs; Guatemala -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Emergent anthropologies and pluricultural ethnography in two postcolonial nations / John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer; title: Culture history in national contexts : ninteenth-century Maya under Mexican and Guatemalan rule / John M. Watanabe; title: Linguistic continuities and discontinuities in the Maya area / Victoria R. Bricker; title: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the politics of Bible translation in Mexico : convergence, appropriation, and consequence / Christine A. Kray; title: "Everything has begun to change" : appraisals of the Mexican state in Chiapas Maya discourse, 1980-2000 / Gary H. Gossen; title: Beyond resistance and protest : the Maya quest for autonomy / June Nash; title: Rereading Tzotzil ethnography : recent scholarship from Chiapas, Mexico / Jan Rus; title: Angering the ancestors : transationalism and economic transformation of Maya communities in western Guatemala / Victor Montejo; title: The janus face of globalization : economic production and cultural reproduction in highland Guatemala / Edward F. Fischer; title: Continuities, imputed and inferred / Richard G. Fox