Chiapas Maya Awakening

Author : Sean S. Sell,Nicolás Huet Bautista
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806157801

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Chiapas Maya Awakening by Sean S. Sell,Nicolás Huet Bautista Pdf

Mexico’s indigenous people speak a number of rich and complex languages today, as they did before the arrival of the Spanish. Yet a common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. Chiapas Maya Awakening, a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, Mexico, is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements. A unique trilingual edition, it presents the contributors’ works in the living Chiapas Mayan languages of Tsotsil and Tseltal, along with English and Spanish translations. As Sean S. Sell, Marceal Méndez, and Inés Hernández-Ávila explain in their thoughtful introductory pieces, the indigenous authors of this volume were born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, a time of growing cultural awareness among the native communities of Chiapas. Although the authors received a formal education, their language of instruction was Spanish, and they had to pursue independent paths to learn to read and write in their native tongues. In the book’s first half, devoted to poetry, the writers consciously speak for their communities. Their verses evoke the quetzal, the moon, and the sea and reflect the identities of those who celebrate them. The short stories that follow address aspects of modern Maya life. In these stories, mistrust and desperation yield violence among a people whose connection to the land is powerful but still precarious. Chiapas Maya Awakening demonstrates that Mayas are neither a vanished ancient civilization nor a remote, undeveloped people. Instead, through their memorable poems and stories, the indigenous writers of this volume claim a place of their own within the broader fields of national and global literature.

Author : Barbara Schütz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806160955

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Weaving Chiapas by Barbara Schütz Pdf

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, including the challenges of living in a highly patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of mainstream scholarship. Based on interviews conducted with members of the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative, the accounts gathered in this volume provide an intimate view of women’s life in the Chiapas highlands, known locally as Los Altos. We learn about their experiences of childhood, marriage, and childbirth; about subsistence farming and food traditions; and about the particular styles of clothing and even hairstyles that vary from community to community. Restricted by custom from engaging in public occupations, Los Altos women are responsible for managing their households and caring for domestic animals. But many of them long for broader opportunities, and the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative represents a bold effort by its members to assume control over and build a wider market for their own work. This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.

Author : Mikel Ruiz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438492988

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Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children by Mikel Ruiz Pdf

Mikel Ruiz's The Errant Children, the first novel published in the Tsotsil Maya language, offers a bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, México. Pedro Ton Tsepente' has a position in his village's traditional council, but rather than taking just a few ceremonial drinks, he becomes an alcoholic, subject to blackouts and delirium tremens. His wife, Pascuala, rages at God to step in and change her husband's behavior, taking extreme measures when He does not. Their neighbor, seventeen-year-old Ignacio Ts'unun, learns about gender relations by watching television programs where beautiful women are lighter-skinned and about sex by watching pornography, which leads to disastrous choices. These characters' suffering comes not from conquerors, missionaries, or settlers but from invasive economic and cultural forces that can make Indigenous people devalue themselves. Do not expect to be uplifted, but do prepare to be astonished.

Author : Worth H. Weller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
ISBN : 0966823117

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Conflict in Chiapas by Worth H. Weller Pdf

Mexico's southernmost state, Chiapas, is a land of towering myths and extravagant beauty. Home to the largest concentration of indigenous people in the Americas, its history is marked by brutal oppression and bloodshed that extends to this day. Veteran journalist and author Worth H. Weller, who has covered conflict in Central America for two decades, breaks through the fogs of time in this book of rare insights and photographs to explore the reality of the modern Maya and their unique Zapatista revolutionary movement. An eye-witness epilogue draws a startling parallel between the cultural and economic issues that face the Maya and those that face their Sioux brethren in South Dakota at the close of the millennium. Book jacket.

Author : Christine Eber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742482

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The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico by Christine Eber Pdf

Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers that perspective in one woman's own words. Anthropologist Christine Eber met "Antonia" in 1986 and has followed her life's journey ever since. In this book, they recount Antonia's life story and also reflect on challenges and rewards they have experienced in working together, offering insight into the role of friendship in anthropological research, as well as into the transnational movement of solidarity with the indigenous people of Chiapas that began with the Zapatista uprising. Antonia was born in 1962 in San Pedro Chenalhó, a Tzotzil-Maya township in highland Chiapas. Her story begins with memories of childhood and progresses to young adulthood, when Antonia began working with women in her community to form weaving cooperatives while also becoming involved in the Word of God, the progressive Catholic movement known elsewhere as Liberation Theology. In 1994, as a wife and mother of six children, she joined a support base for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Recounting her experiences in these three interwoven movements, Antonia offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to her people's traditions.

Author : John J. Liptak
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738723150

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2012: Catalyst for Your Spiritual Awakening by John J. Liptak Pdf

December 21, 2012—not the end of life as we know it, but the dawn of a powerful new era of enlightenment. This engaging and easy-to-use guide reveals how to use the ancient wisdom of the Mayans to develop your inherent spiritual gifts. The unique self-exploration system uses the twenty Day Signs of the Mayan calendar—symbolized by animals and forces of nature, such as crocodile, wind, and night—to help you identify and activate the greatest treasures of your soul. With quick quizzes and questionnaires, you’ll gain valuable insights into your spirituality type and the energy patterns that motivate and inspire you. Once you discover your true calling, you’ll begin to have deeper and more meaningful spiritual experiences. Along with more fulfilling personal relationships and more satisfaction in your spiritual life, work, and leisure activities, you’ll be contributing to the harmony and well-being of the Earth.

Author : Delfina Cabrera,Denise Kripper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000836271

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The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation by Delfina Cabrera,Denise Kripper Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters focus on issues ranging from the role of translation in the construction of national identities to the challenges of translation in the current digital age. Areas of interest expand from the United States to the Southern Cone, including the Caribbean and Brazil, as well as the impact of Latin American literature internationally, and paying attention to translation from and to indigenous languages; Portuguese, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanglish, and more. The first of its kind in English, this Handbook will shed light on different translation approaches and invite a rethinking of intercultural and interlingual exchanges from Latin American viewpoints. This is key reading for all scholars, researchers, and students of literary translation studies, Latin American literature, and comparative literature.

Author : Lila Bujaldón de Esteves,Belén Bistué,Melisa Stocco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030236250

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Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana by Lila Bujaldón de Esteves,Belén Bistué,Melisa Stocco Pdf

This edited book contributes to the growing field of self-translation studies by exploring the diversity of roles the practice has in Spanish-speaking contexts of production on both sides of the Atlantic. Part I surveys the presence of self-translation in contemporary Indigenous literatures in Spanish America, with a focus on Mexico and the Mapuche poetry of Chile and Argentina. Part II proposes to incorporate self-translation into the history of Spanish-American literatures- including its relation with colonial multilingual-translation practices, the transfers it allowed between the French and Spanish-American avant-gardes, and the insertion it offered for exiled Republicans in Mexico. Part III develops new reflections on the Iberian realm: on the choice between self and allograph translation Basque writers must face, a new category in Xosé Dasilva’s typology, based on the Galician context, and the need to expand the analysis of directionality in Catalan self-translations. This book brings together contributions from some of the leading international experts in translation and self-translation, and it will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Spanish Literature, Spanish American and Latin American Literature, and Amerindian Literatures.

Author : Adam W. Coon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438497792

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The Serpent's Plumes by Adam W. Coon Pdf

The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "poetry," written from the 1980s to the present. Adam W. Coon draws on Nahua perspectives as a decolonizing theoretical framework to argue that Nahua writers deploy unique worldviews—namely, ixtlamatilistli ("knowledge with the face," which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("knowledge with the heart," which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("that which is in front," which presents the past as lying ahead of a subject rather than behind). The views of ixtlamatilistli, yoltlajlamikilistli, and tlaixpan are key in Nahua struggles and effectively challenge those who attempt to marginalize Native knowledge production.

Author : Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789145519

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The Maya by Megan E. O’Neil Pdf

An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the preclassical period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of outside engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists, taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs, and Indigenous activism. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.

Author : Heidi Moksnes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806150369

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Maya Exodus by Heidi Moksnes Pdf

Maya Exodus offers a richly detailed account of how a group of indigenous people has adopted a global language of human rights to press claims for social change and social justice. Anthropologist Heidi Moksnes describes how Catholic Maya in the municipality of Chenalhó in Chiapas, Mexico, have changed their position vis-à-vis the Mexican state—from being loyal clients dependent on a patron, to being citizens who have rights—as a means of exodus from poverty. Moksnes lived in Chenalhó in the mid-1990s and has since followed how Catholic Maya have adopted liberation theology and organized a religious and political movement to both advance their sociopolitical position in Mexico and restructure local Maya life. She came to know members of the Catholic organization Las Abejas shortly before they made headlines when forty-five members, including women and children, were killed by Mexican paramilitary troops because of their sympathy with the Zapatistas. In the years since the massacre at Acteal, Las Abejas has become a global symbol of indigenous pacifist resistance against state oppression. The Catholic Maya in Chenalhó see their poverty as a legacy of colonial rule perpetuated by the present Mexican government, and believe that their suffering is contrary to the will of God. Moksnes shows how this antagonism toward the state is exacerbated by the government’s recent neoliberal policies, which have ended pro-peasant programs while employing a discourse on human rights. In this context, Catholic Maya debate the value of pressing the state with their claims. Instead, they seek independent routes to influence and resources, through the Catholic Diocese and nongovernmental organizations—relations, however, that also help to create new dependencies. This book incorporates voices of Maya men and women as they form new identities, rethink central conceptions of being human, and assert citizenship rights. Maya Exodus deepens our understanding of the complexities involved in striving for social change. Ultimately, it highlights the contradictory messages marginalized peoples encounter when engaging with the globally celebrated human rights discourse.

Author : Jan Rus,Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo,Shannan L. Mattiace
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461640059

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Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias by Jan Rus,Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo,Shannan L. Mattiace Pdf

The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the uprising. This compelling volume examines in detail these local and regional histories of power and resistance, powerfully bolstered by gripping and heartrending details of oppression and opposition. Situated broadly within the field of political anthropology, the authors trace the connections between indigenous culture and indigenous resistance. Their case studies include the Tzotzils and Tzeltals of the highland region, the Tojolabals of eastern Chiapas, northern Ch'ol communities, the Mams of eastern and southeastern Chiapas, and the settler communities of the Lacandon rain forest. In the wake of the Chiapas rebellion, all of these groups have increasingly come together around common goals, the most important of which is autonomy. Three essays focus specifically on the issue of Indian autonomy_in both Zapatista and non-Zapatista communities. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarship with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement.

Author : Teresa Ortiz
Publisher : Epica
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046434794

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Never Again a World Without Us by Teresa Ortiz Pdf

Author : Hunbatz Men
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798692108517

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Maya Yok'Hah Workbook by Hunbatz Men by Hunbatz Men Pdf

~:::AWAKENING THE SERPENT OF LIGHT::: SHARING ANCIENT MAYA WISDOMS NOW AVAILABLE:::~ ::82 PAGES:: In dedication and Honor to Maestro Hunbatz Men. All royalties will go directly to support the Lol Be Cultural Center in the Yucatan Mexico. The Maya Yoga (Yok'hah) work includes 8 Key systems of Holistic Yoga Practice including: Mantra (chant), Mudra (hand signs),Pranayam (breath), Hatha (posture), and Meditation used in sequence to attain a Unified state of awareness. This work is sanctioned through Hunbatz Men's Cosmic Initiatic University Yucatan, Mexico. Also includes philosophy and cosmology in the following areas which I will be adding first hand experience to in the edited version 2. Co written by Master Hunbatz Men and Lennie Martin. Chapter Index: Origin of the Mayan People and History of Maya Mysticism Maya Glyphic Writing Cosmic Maya Calendars Mayan Mystic Language and The Zuvuya as a Maya Mystery Maya Social Organization: The Kuchteel & The Cycles of Life Maya Sexual Education. The Chakras as Generators of Life Sacred Maya Geometry The Human Body as a Duality of Energy Deities of the Maya Cosmogony It is with great honor and gratitude to bring you this project. Before his passing in 2016, Hunbatz Men asked me to partner with him to edit, expand, and research his current University workbook into a published piece. My name is Tuvasana, I am of Cherokee and Scottish descent. I am a published writer in the Library of Congress anthology "In Between Darkness and Light". For a work of poetry entitled "Thoughts of Time" Over the past 10 years I have worked closely with Hunbatz Men, Lennie Martin, Jose Arguelles, John Major Jenkins, Drunvalo Melchizedek, , Thunderbeat Devara, Robert Roskind, Merlin, and others on this Initiatic journey. Along with other Maya Elders, Hawaiian Wisdom Keepers, Cherokee, Tibetan, Hermetic, and other Indigenous and Earth Stewarding guardians who have illumined the flame of my inner most truths. In 2005 I travelled to Tikal and spent extensive time with the Maya Culture including Ta Ta Pedro Cruz. Where we did 7 days of ceremony leading of to Dec 21st. This was my introduction to the Maya culture, followed by a 5 month sojourn the the Guatemala Highlands of Lake Atitlantis. I co organized the Prayer Run for World Peace that year for Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota Sioux Nation. Where I ran with a Youth Group, relay style 20-30 miles per day from Taos Pueblo to Piedmont South Dakota. This was my re-invitation to the Red Road. In 2011 I co organized the Crystal Skulls Pilgrimage with Hunbatz Men Unify.org, and Drunvalo Melchizedek, more information on this will be included in my upcoming book of which this release is a fundraiser for. I am currently compiling my autobiography work entitled, "Memoirs of the End of Time". This work is dedicated to the liberation of suffering and the incubation of Peace and healing for all beings. Feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Author : Edward Cook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004319981

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Crosscurrents in Indigenous Spirituality by Edward Cook Pdf

The resurgence of indigenous cultures and the reappearance of their ancient spiritualities, during the 1990s, is of great interest to social scientists. Several such cultures are featured in this book. The indigenous populations of struggling multi-ethnic "democracies" in Latin America are demanding to be integrated into the national mainstream, together with their holistic values of family, economics and ecology. Institutional Christianity is being challenged by indigenous theologies that are critical of both traditional Christianity and liberation theology. While some see here a danger of syncretism, these developments can be experienced as a breath of fresh air. "Much has been said about the Mayas, but they have not been allowed to speak for themselves" (anthropologist Rafael Girardi, 1962). This book is an attempt to allow religious spokespersons from a very ancient and creative civilization to share their faith, which has remained hidden for five centuries.