RESUMEN
Este informe explora la relación entre el conocimiento histórico y el poder en San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala. En Chamelco, los q'eqchi' producen la historia regional por medio de cuentos de Aj Pop B'atz', quien protegió la comunidad q'eqchi' contra la invasión española en el siglo XVI. En 2006, fundé un grupo étnografico colaborativo para analizar los cuentos orales y un documento colonial. Nuestro análisis revela Aj Pop B'atz' como una parte vital de la vida contemporánea q'eqchi'. Este artículo propone que mis colegas utilicen Aj Pop B'atz' para construir la identidad q'eqchi' y fortalecer su papel en la historia guatemalteca. El descubrimiento de un texto colonial que documenta Aj Pop B'atz' da a mis colegas el poder para cambiar la historia oficial de Guatemala que ignora las contribuciones del pueblo q'eqchi'. De hecho, este informe examina las investigaciones colaborativas como un medio de la historicidad latinoamericana.
In Chamelco and beyond, the Q'eqchi' are one of Mesoamerica's largest indigenous groups, registering close to one million speakers in Guatemala alone. The department of Alta Verapaz is home to 776,246 residents, 720,741 of whom identify ethnically as indigenous. Spanish chroniclers suggest that Alta Verapaz has served as the Q'eqchi' homeland since the Pre-Columbian era. Chamelco's contemporary population consists of more than 38,973 individuals, a small fraction of Guatemala's total Q'eqchi' population, This chapter discusses the history of the Q'eqchi' homeland of Alta Verapaz. It argues that continuity with the ancestors and with the ancient past is a category that grounds Q'eqchi' notions of value.
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