Title Maya identities and the violence of place : borders bleed / Charles D. Thompson, Jr

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis (CAM) : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge revivals Vitality of indigenous religions Routledge revivals. Vitality of indigenous religions. Contents Chapter One Life, Death, and Lines of Containment / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Two Natives of Bleeding Land / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Three The Return to \ / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Four Colonial Enclosures / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Five Arrival 1927: The Formation of Ethno-Boundaries / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Six Bricks and Borders / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Seven Extended Knowledges: Making Use of all Possible Routes / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Eight The Jacaltenango Road / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Nine Legendary Travelers / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Ten Of Fields and Dreams / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Eleven Moving Histories / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Twelve Guadelupe Victoria: Jacalteco Town in Mexico / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Thirteen Beyond the Cutting Edge: Religion, Place, and Transition / Charles D. Thompson -- chapter Fourteen Conclusion / Charles D. Thompson Summary "This title was first published in 2001. Exploring issues of diversity and cross-cultural interaction and understanding, Maya Identities and the Violence of Place offers new perspectives on borderlands and identities, providing an important case study of people from Latin America on the move. Examining issues of indigeneity, diaspora, flights from physical violence and economic repression, and efforts to remain indigenous among a proud but beleaguered people, this book is replete with stories of movement and change that operate as means to maintain identity. Thompson examines how the Jacalteco Maya of Latin America form their identities as indigenous people, despite a long tradition of movement across the rigid constraints of borders? of geography, history, race and ethnicity. Religion, language, fiestas, and stories of leaving and return, all serve to bond people to their particularity. Examining the indigenous identity formations and religious convictions among the Maya in places where brutality has dominated the landscape and where violence is commonplace, this book avoids dwelling on centers? of culture and explains instead how Maya concepts of identity arise from travel, contact with others, and change. Thompson reveals the ironies of classifying as natives', aboriginal? or indigenous? the many individuals and families who have become refugees, and explores how Maya have transcended the erroneous image of Guatemalan Indians ensconced within borders of particular land, and how they have overstepped popular portrayals of native? peoples clinging tenaciously to their sacred? soil as their sole means of surviving culturally and spiritually. Showing bleeding borders to be more than a recent occurrence, Thompson argues that there has never been a time when Maya did not have to travel in order to remain who they are. Exploring ideas of human to land connections and how religion among the indigenous makes change and movement possible, this book offers invaluable insight"--Provided by publisher Notes "First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed February 16, 2018) Subject Jacalteca Indians -- Ethnic identity Jacalteca Indians -- Crimes against Jacalteca Indians -- Social conditions Refugees -- Mexico -- Chiapas SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Ethnic relations Refugees Social conditions SUBJECT Guatemala -- Ethnic relations Jacaltenango (Guatemala) -- Social conditions Subject Guatemala Guatemala -- Jacaltenango Mexico -- Chiapas Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315187440 1315187442

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