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Indigenous Archives : The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boj Lopez, Floridalma.
- , UCLA, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture.
- Collective memory--Guatemala.
- Collective memory.
- Mayas--Relocation--California--Los Angeles.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--California--Los Angeles--Ethnic identity.
- Maya arts--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.
- Maya arts.
- Maya youth--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
- Maya youth.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2026.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Indigenous Archives analyzes the cultural production of Maya youth in Los Angeles to examine how they create a sense of Indigenous belonging despite transnational experiences of settler colonialism. Floridalma Boj Lopez explores an Indigeneity that, because of the Maya's violent displacement from Guatemala, is forcibly untethered from ancestral land tenure, tribal citizenship, and governmentalities of the nation-state. Instead, citing a more active practice of "archives in formation," Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in survival, memory, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts mobilize and adapt in the contemporary. Boj Lopez uses mobile Indigenous archives to disrupt static, institutionalized settler archives of Latinidad and Indigeneity that do not account for spatial articulations of power and mobile diasporic knowledges in the contemporary"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contesting the logics of displacement in the production of the Indigenous migrant
- Weaving Maya geographies, textiles, and relationality in diaspora
- La Comunidad Ixim and organizing in the Maya diaspora
- Returning the gaze, reclaiming the image : contemporary photography as archive making.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6175-8
- 1-4780-9447-8
- OCLC:
- 1564413691
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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