Recovering Lost Footprints - 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 Recovering Lost Footprints write by Arturo Arias. This book was released on 2017. Recovering Lost Footprints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 2: "Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models of development in the present. By way of his analysis, he suggests that we are facing a historical impasse because we have neglected native knowledges that offer alternative codes of ethics and beingness that emerge from Indigenous cosmovisions. The text skillfully contributes to and strengthens debates between US-centered and Latin American cultural studies theorists, as well as the hemispheric expansion of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is inspired more by the past as it impinges upon a continuing, constantly expanding present. Arias's reading of Maya literatures forces us to reconsider the space-time structure of Western thinking. Indeed, this book is intriguing precisely because it views literature from an Indigenous perspective, evidencing how that social space is full of multiple contrasting experiences and historical processes." -- SUNY Press.
Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas
Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas - 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 Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas write by Arturo Arias. This book was released on 2017. Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 1: "Recovering Lost Footprints is the first full-length critical study to analyze Latin American Indigenous literary narratives in a systematic manner. In the book, Arturo Arias looks at Maya narratives in Guatemala. The study of these works is intended to spark changes so that constitutions recognize these cultures, their rights, their languages, their centers of worship, and their cosmologies. Through this study, Arias problematizes the partial or full omission of Latin America's original inhabitants from recognized citizenry. This book analyzes these elements of exclusion in the novelistic output of three salient figures, Luis de Lión, Gaspar Pedro González, and Víctor Montejo. The works by these writers offer evidence that most native people have entered modernity without renouncing their respective cultures or the specifics of their singular identities. The philosophical ethics elaborated in the texts, such as respect for nature and recognition of the holistic value of natural beings, enable non-Indigenous readers to both understand and relate to these values." -- SUNY Press.
Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas ; Emerging Narratives in Chiapas
Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas ; Emerging Narratives in Chiapas - 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 Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas ; Emerging Narratives in Chiapas write by Arturo Arias. This book was released on 2017. Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya narratives. Peninsular Mayas ; Emerging Narratives in Chiapas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 - 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 Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 write by Arturo Arias. This book was released on 2018-12-01. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models of development in the present. By way of his analysis, he suggests that we are facing a historical impasse because we have neglected native knowledges that offer alternative codes of ethics and beingness that emerge from Indigenous cosmovisions. The text skillfully contributes to and strengthens debates between US-centered and Latin American cultural studies theorists, as well as the hemispheric expansion of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is inspired more by the past as it impinges upon a continuing, constantly expanding present. Ariass reading of Maya literatures forces us to reconsider the space-time structure of Western thinking. Indeed, this book is intriguing precisely because it views literature from an Indigenous perspective, evidencing how that social space is full of multiple contrasting experiences and historical processes. By drawing attention to the articulation between the contemporary literary production and its relationship to Mayan cosmovision in a broad sense, and focusing on the different traditions preserved through diverse languages and customs, this rich, comprehensive overview offers glimpses of a very different worldview. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins, author of Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema
Contemporary Maya Spirituality
Contemporary Maya Spirituality - 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 Contemporary Maya Spirituality write by Jean Molesky-Poz. This book was released on 2009-06-23. Contemporary Maya Spirituality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative study of the indigenous religion still practiced in Guatemala based on extensive original research and participant observation. Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq’ijab’ (keepers of the ritual calendar), her own participant observation, and inter-disciplinary resources to offer a comprehensive, innovative, and well-grounded understanding of contemporary Maya spirituality and its theological underpinnings. She reveals significant continuities between contemporary and ancient Maya worldviews and spiritual practices. Molesky-Poz opens with a discussion of how the public emergence of Maya spirituality is situated within the religious political history of the Guatemalan highlands, particularly the pan-Maya movement. She investigates Maya cosmovision and its foundational principles, as expressed by Ajq’ijab’. At the heart of this work, Ajq’ijab’ interpret their obligation, lives, and spiritual work. Molesky-Poz then explores aspects of Maya spirituality, including sacred geography, sacred time, and ritual practice. She confirms contemporary Maya spirituality as a faith tradition with elaborate historical roots that has significance for individual, collective, and historical lives, reaffirming its own public space and legal right to be practiced.
