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Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan
By Peter Hervik
Copyright 2003
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared... Read more
List of Figures List of Maps List of Illustrations List of National Geographic Plates List of Tables Preface 1. 1. The People of Oxkutzcab, Yucatan 2. Social Categories in Yucatan 3. External Constructions of the Maya 4. Maya and Mestizo : Two Different Worlds 5. Learning to be Indian : New Ethnic and Cultural Identities in Oxkutzcab 6. Voices In and About Popular Religion: The Competing Constructions of Participants and Authorities 7. Shared Social Experience and Co-developing Reflexivities 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Biography
Peter Hervik has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Currently he is researching the Danish response to emerging multiculturalism. Hervik is the Editor of Folk-the Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society.
"[T]he first truly fresh perspective on Yucatan in recent history...an excellent and unusual book... The author breaks so much new ground, raises so many challenging issues, and brings such a new perspective to the field of Mayan studies, that this is ... an extremely important work." -- Richard Wilk of Indiana University
