Human rights in the Maya region : global politics, cultural contentions, and moral engagements / edited by Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed, and Xochitl Leyva Solano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitarch Ramón, Pedro.

Speed, Shannon, 1964-

Leyva Solano, Xochitl.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Government relations.

Mayas.

Mayas--Legal status, laws, etc.

Human rights--Mexico--Chiapas.

Human rights.

Human rights--Guatemala.

Chiapas (Mexico)--Ethnic relations.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Guatemala--Ethnic relations.

Guatemala.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigation of human rights and anthropology's involvement with human rights in Mesoamerica, a region which has become one of a handful of testing grounds for this theme in the world.

Contents:

1. Cultural rights and human rights: a social science perspective / Rodolfo Stavenhagen

2. Perspectives on the politics of human rights in Guatemala / Robert M. Carmack

3. Legal globalization and human rights: constructing the rule of law in postconflict Guatemala? / Rachel Sieder

4. The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Pedro Pitarch

5. Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Diffcult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala / Stener Ekern

Here it's different: the Ch'orti and human rights training / Julian Lopez Garcia

7. Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues / Irma Otzoy

8. Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiche / David Stoll

9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano

10. Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery / Victoria Sanford

11. Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas / Christine Kovic

12. Asumiendo nuestra propia defensa: Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and Alvaro Reyes

Final Comments, Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power / Richard Ashby Wilson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-355) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

OCLC:

317316535