Human Rights in the Maya Region : Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements PDF
Edited by Pitarch Pedro Pitarch, Speed Shannon Speed, Leyva-Solano Xochitl Leyva-Solano
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The collection includes a reflection on the effects of truth-finding and documenting particular human rights abuses, a look at how Catholic social teaching validates the human rights claims advanced by indigenous members of a diocese in Chiapas, and several analyses of the limitations of human rights frameworks. A Mayan intellectual seeks to bring Mayan culture into dialogue with western feminist notions of women's rights, while another contributor critiques the translation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights into Tzeltal, an indigenous language in Chiapas. Taken together, the essays reveal a broad array of rights-related practices and interpretations among the Mayan population, demonstrating that global-local-state interactions are complex and diverse even within a geographically limited area. So too are the goals of indigenous groups, which vary from social reconstruction and healing following years of violence to the creation of an indigenous autonomy that challenges the tenets of neoliberalism.
Contributors: Robert M. Carmack, Stener Ekern, Christine Kovic, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Julian Lopez Garcia, Irma Otzoy, Pedro Pitarch, Alvaro Reyes, Victoria Sanford, Rachel Sieder, Shannon Speed, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, David Stoll, Richard Ashby Wilson
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- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780822389057
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780822389057