Maya Identities and the Violence of Place: Borders Bleed

ISBN-13: 9781138734005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Charles D. Thompson;Jr.

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. Exploring issues of diversity and cross-cultural interaction and understanding, this book offers new perspectives on borderlands and identities and provides an important case study of people from Latin America. Through ideas of human to land connections and how religion makes change and movement possible, this book offers invaluable insights for researchers across the fields of anthropology, religious and cultural studies.

Recenzje

'...Thompson presents a substantial, sensitive, and well-written work which discloses the strategies and worldviews of the Jacaltecos and the way they are shaped in adverse circumstances. The book provides a deeper understanding of how religious concepts, practices, everyday-experience, and the experience of violence are intensely interrelated in re-constructing identity and how this enables individuals to cope with borders in the many senses of the term.' Journal of Contemporary Religion 'This is a book which asks us to rethink the processes of intellectual enclosure in which we place the subjects of our research. It does so through a beautifully written account of Mayan... identities and culture in transition.' The Global Review of Ethnopolitics 'It is a frequently moving and inspiring story and the issues discussed are particularly pertinent today in a world where many indigenous communities, cultures and ways of life are dying out and disappearing, never to be recovered.' British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain

Spis treści

Contents: Life, death and lines of containment; Natives of bleeding land; The return to Maya Ruins; Colonial enclosures; Arrival 1927: the formation of Ethno-boundaries; Bricks and borders; Extended knowledges: making use of all possible routes; The Jacaltenango Road; Legendary travellers; Of fields and dreams; Moving histories; Guadeloupe Victoria: Jacalteco town in Mexico; Beyond the cutting edge: religion, place and transition; Conclusion; References.

O autorze

Thompson, Charles D.; Jr,