Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity Violence Cultural Rights and Modernity in Highland Guatemala 1st Edition by Brigittine French 9780816527670 0816527679

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ISBN 10:0816527679 
ISBN 13:9780816527670
Author: Brigittine French

In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged context of contemporary Guatemala. Beginning with an examination of the “nationalist project” that has been ongoing since the end of the colonial period, French interrogates the “Guatemalan/indigenous binary.” In Guatemala, “Ladino” refers to the Spanish-speaking minority of the population, who are of mixed European, usually Spanish, and indigenous ancestry; “Indian” is understood to mean the majority of Guatemala’s population, who speak one of the twenty-one languages in the Maya linguistic groups of the country, although levels of bilingualism are very high among most Maya communities. As French shows, the Guatemalan state has actively promoted a racialized, essentialized notion of “Indians” as an undifferentiated, inherently inferior group that has stood stubbornly in the way of national progress, unity, and development—which are, implicitly, the goals of “true Guatemalans” (that is, Ladinos).

French shows, with useful examples, how constructions of language and collective identity are in fact strategies undertaken to serve the goals of institutions (including the government, the military, the educational system, and the church) and social actors (including linguists, scholars, and activists). But by incorporating in-depth fieldwork with groups that speak Kaqchikel and K’iche’ along with analyses of Spanish-language discourses, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity also shows how some individuals in urban, bilingual Indian communities have disrupted the essentializing projects of multiculturalism. And by focusing on ideologies of language, the author is able to explicitly link linguistic forms and functions with larger issues of consciousness, gender politics, social positions, and the forging of hegemonic power relations.

Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity Violence Cultural Rights and Modernity in Highland Guatemala 1st  Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 The Paradox of Ethnolinguistic Identity: Essentialisms, State-Sponsored Violence, and Cultural Rights

CHAPTER 2 Political Linguistics: Expert Linguists and Modernist Epistemologies in the Guatemalan Nation

CHAPTER 3 Traditional Histories, Local Selves, and Challenges to Linguistic Unification

CHAPTER 4 Modernity and Local Linguistic Ideologies in Chimaltenango

CHAPTER 5 Traditional Maya Women and Linguistic Reproduction

CHAPTER 6 Conclusion: Vernacular Modernities and the Objectification of Tradition

 

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