Mesoamerican Community Studies: The Past Decade

Chambers, Erve; Young, Philip D.

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.08.100179.000401

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“…For over half a century, scholars have both been adhering to and, equally, dismantling Redfield's view of bounded culture and community. Chambers and Young (1979), in a survey of more than 100 studies of Mexican and Guatemalan communities, demonstrate that these studies pay little attention to community heterogeneity, but rather that they view 'the community as a unified, integrated whole ' (1979: 65). Castañeda also demonstrates that, for most scholars of the Maya, a village or town is assumed to be the geographic foundation of a community and an imagined moral bond that supposedly exists among the people of these particular areas.…”

Section: Small Communities: Territorialized Vehicles Of Mayannessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scholarly Surrealism

Hervik

Kahn

2006

Critique of Anthropology

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■ We imagine Mayanness as an enduring 'pure' substrate below surfaces of diversity that is constructed and maintained through surrealistic scholarship. Equipped with community studies, theories and methods, scholars surrealistically construct ideas of Mayanness, as do the millions of self-identified Mayan individuals from Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and beyond. We use Salvador Dalí's masterpiece, The Persistence of Memory, as a playful device for explaining how Mayanness is perpetuated in practice, within ethnographic contexts, and always in realms of power. Mayanist discourse is analogous to Surrealism in many, but not all, ways. Mayanist discourse is clearly surrealistic when we view it as emerging from discordance and paradox, but it differs from Surrealism when it masks and replaces the surreal with aesthetic, palatable and 'pure' images of coherence and rationality. By acknowledging our scholarly surrealism, we suggest that we may encounter a bit of academic iconoclasm and liberation. By embracing the inherent paradox, rather than concealing it, we contribute to polemical academic debates regarding constructed binary oppositions, geographic foundations of identity, alternative methodologies and means of representation, and issues of continuity and change in Mayan scholarship and lives.

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Section: Small Communities: Territorialized Vehicles Of Mayannessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scholarly Surrealism

Hervik

Kahn

2006

Critique of Anthropology

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“…Guatemalan history can be further understood through an overview of early community studies as well as a discussion on the domains of popular education, liberation theology, feminist literature, and violence studies. Early community studies literature employed qualitative methods with a holistic approach (Chambers 1979). This overview starts in the 1930s because the works of Tax (1953Tax ( , 1952Tax ( , 1937, Redfield (1941Redfield ( , 1930 and Parsons (1936) exemplify early community studies literature.…”

Section: Guatemalan History Through Interdisciplinary Literature: 193mentioning

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Mujeres autorizadas: Women's empowerment programs as a form of community development in Guatemala.

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Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case

Pavón

2014

Lat Am Econ Rev

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Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the colonial period and remains a part of current indigenous culture. To test the hypothesis, I elaborated a trade model and an economic growth model that take into account the cultural factor. As predicted, the results help to explain indigenous peoples' poverty. This article includes empirical evidence about Mexico's indigenous population.

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Mesoamerican Community Studies: The Past Decade

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 publications

Scholarly Surrealism

Scholarly Surrealism

Mujeres autorizadas: Women's empowerment programs as a form of community development in Guatemala.

Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case

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