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Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements Book

Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements, In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in th, Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements, In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in th, Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
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  • Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
  • Written by author Pedro Pitarch
  • Published by Duke University Press Books, January 2008
  • In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in th
  • 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.
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Abbreviations vii

Introduction Shannon Speed Xochitl Leyva Solano 1

Part 1 Global Politics and Nation-States

1 Cultural Rights and Human Rights: A Social Science Perspective Rodolfo Stavenhagen 27

2 Perspectives on the Politics of Human Rights in Guatemala Robert M. Carmack 51

3 Legal Globalization and Human Rights: Constructing the Rule of Law in Postconflict Guatemala? Rachel Sieder 67

Part 2 Cultural Contentions

4 The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Pedro Pitarch 91

5 Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Difficult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala Stener Ekern 123

6 "Here It's Different": The Ch'orti' and Human Rights Training Julian Lopez Garcia 145

7 Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues Irma Otzoy 171

8 Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiche David Stoll 187

Part 3 Political Engagements

9 Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas Shannon Speed Xochitl Leyva Solano 207

10 Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery Victoria Sanford 233

11 Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas Christine Kovic 257

12 "Asumiendo Nuestra Propia Defensa": Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas Shannon Speed Alvaro Reyes 279

Final Comments: Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power Richard Ashby Wilson 305

References 323

Contributors 357

Index 361


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