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Maya in exile : Guatemalans in Florida / Allan F. Burns ; introduction by Jerónimo Camposeco.
The Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Maya fled the terror of Guatemalan civil strife to safety in Mexico and the U.S. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown, a small agricultural community in south central Florida, presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the U.S., and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture. For more than a decade, Allan F. Burns has been researching and doing advocacy work for these immigrant Maya, who speak Kanjobal, Quiche, Mamanâ, and several other of the more than thirty distinct languages in southern Mexico and Guatemala. In this fist book on the Guatemalan Maya in the U.S, he uses their many voices to communicate the experience of the Maya in Florida and describes the advantages and results of applied anthropology in refugee studies and cultural adaptation.
Burns describes the political and social background of the Guatemalan immigrants to the U.S. and includes personal accounts of individual strategies for leaving Guatemala and traveling to Florida. Examining how they interact with the community and recreate a Maya society in the U.S., he considers how low-wage labor influences the social structure of Maya immigrant society and discusses the effects of U.S. immigration policy on these refugees. -- Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 1566390354
- ISBN: 9781566390354
- ISBN: 1566390362
- ISBN: 9781566390361
- Physical Description: xlvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Introd. in English and Spanish on opposite pages.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction / Jeronimo Camposeco -- 1. Maya Refugees and Applied Anthropology -- 2. Escape and Arrival -- 3. Life Crisis and Ritual -- 4. The Maya in Community and Ethnic Context -- 5. Work and Changes in Social Structure -- 6. Conflict and the Evolution of a New Maya Identity -- 7. Visual Anthropology and the Maya -- 8. Always Maya.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | F 1465.2 .K36 B87 1993 | 228473 | Stacks | Available | - |
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| 520 | . | ‡aThe Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Maya fled the terror of Guatemalan civil strife to safety in Mexico and the U.S. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown, a small agricultural community in south central Florida, presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the U.S., and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture. For more than a decade, Allan F. Burns has been researching and doing advocacy work for these immigrant Maya, who speak Kanjobal, Quiche, Mamanâ, and several other of the more than thirty distinct languages in southern Mexico and Guatemala. In this fist book on the Guatemalan Maya in the U.S, he uses their many voices to communicate the experience of the Maya in Florida and describes the advantages and results of applied anthropology in refugee studies and cultural adaptation. | |
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