Mayan people within and beyond boundaries : social categories and lived identity in Yucatán / Peter Hervik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hervik, Peter, 1956-

Series:

Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 25.

Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--Social conditions.

Mayas.

Social classes--Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Social classes.

Ethnicity.

Social conditions.

Mexico--Yucatán (State).

Mayas--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--Ethnic identity.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Social categories and lived identity in Yucatán.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, [1999]

Summary:

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 social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The People of Oxkutzcab, Yucatan 1

Chapter 2 Social Categories in Yucatan 23

Chapter 3 External Constructions of "the Maya" 59

Chapter 4 Maya and "Mestizo": Two Different Worlds 91

Chapter 5 Learning to be "Indian": New Ethnic and Cultural Identities in Oxkutzcab 111

Chapter 6 Voices in and about Popular Religion: The Competing Constructions of Participants and "Authorities" 131

Chapter 7 Shared Social Experience and Co-developing Reflexivities 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Copenhagen, 1992.

ISBN:

9057023407

OCLC:

41485956