Maya Exodus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maya Exodus write by Heidi Moksnes. This book was released on 2013-07-29. Maya Exodus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Exodus of the Maya
The Exodus of the Maya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Exodus of the Maya write by C. Wythe Cooke. This book was released on 19??. The Exodus of the Maya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The magic and mysteries of Mexico or, The Arcane secrets and occult lore of the ancient Mexicans and Maya
The magic and mysteries of Mexico or, The Arcane secrets and occult lore of the ancient Mexicans and Maya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The magic and mysteries of Mexico or, The Arcane secrets and occult lore of the ancient Mexicans and Maya write by Lewis Spence. This book was released on 1923. The magic and mysteries of Mexico or, The Arcane secrets and occult lore of the ancient Mexicans and Maya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The magic and mysteries of Mexico or, The Arcane secrets and occult lore of the ancient Mexicans and Maya
The Americas' First Theologies
The Americas' First Theologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Americas' First Theologies write by . This book was released on 2017-07-03. The Americas' First Theologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's doctrine of god, cosmogony, moral anthropology, understanding of natural law and biblical history, and constructive engagement with pre-Hispanic Maya religion. Rather than merely condemn the Maya religion, Vico appropriated local terms and images from Maya mythology and rituals that he thought could convey Christianity. His attempt at translating, if not reconfiguring, Christianity for a Maya readership required his mastery of not only numerous Mayan languages but also the highly poetic ceremonial rhetoric of many indigenous Mesoamerican peoples. This book also includes translations of two other pastoral texts (parts of a songbook and a catechism) and eight early documents by K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya authors who engaged the Theologia Indorum. These texts, written in Highland Mayan languages both by fellow Dominicans and by Highland Maya elites demonstrate the wider influence of Vico's ethnographic approach shared by a particular school of Dominicans. Altogether, The Americas' First Theologies provides a rich documentary case example of the translation, reception, and reaction to Christian thought in the indigenous Americas
A World of Many
A World of Many - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World of Many write by Norbert Ross. This book was released on 2023-01-13. A World of Many available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children’s agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.
