Este artículo explora una época que las corridas de toros celebradas en Yucatán —llamadas paywakax en lengua maya— fueron suprimidas por el régimen revolucionario de Salvador Alvarado y algunos de sus sucesores socialistas en la gubernatura del Estado (1915-1924). Aunque la información al respecto contenida en documentos locales de la época se antoja parca en detalles, ésta es útil para esbozar la complejidad de un momento en que mientras la política estatal se daba a la tarea de “desbarbarizar” y “desfanatizar a los indios”, los habitantes del Yucatán rural —algunos de ellos militantes o autoridades socialistas— se empeñaban en mantener sus celebraciones patronales, incluyendo las singulares corridas de toros, como expresión festiva de su propia religiosidad.
{"title":"Los vecinos de este pueblo quieren fiesta: Celebraciones patronales y corridas de toros durante la prohibición revolucionaria en Yucatán","authors":"Julián Dzul Nah","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.26","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo explora una época que las corridas de toros celebradas en Yucatán —llamadas paywakax en lengua maya— fueron suprimidas por el régimen revolucionario de Salvador Alvarado y algunos de sus sucesores socialistas en la gubernatura del Estado (1915-1924). Aunque la información al respecto contenida en documentos locales de la época se antoja parca en detalles, ésta es útil para esbozar la complejidad de un momento en que mientras la política estatal se daba a la tarea de “desbarbarizar” y “desfanatizar a los indios”, los habitantes del Yucatán rural —algunos de ellos militantes o autoridades socialistas— se empeñaban en mantener sus celebraciones patronales, incluyendo las singulares corridas de toros, como expresión festiva de su propia religiosidad.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126660955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Este artículo discute el impacto de la migración internacional en la población adulta mayor en Yucatán. Se presentan cinco estudios de caso de veintitrés entrevistas a profundidad realizadas a familias transnacionales. En este estudio encontramos que los padres y madres envejecidos que tienen hijos emigrados en California desarrollan un sentido de bienestar y calidad de vida positivo con base en el sostenimiento de redes familiares transnacionales e intergeneracionales, los trabajos del cuidado realizados por la parentela local, y el envío de remesas para el mejoramiento del patrimonio familiar. El análisis de las redes comunitarias y el activismo grupal transnacional, en beneficio de los adultos mayores que no tienen hijos emigrados internacionales, revela grandes desigualdades sociales y económicas entre una parte de la población adulta mayor que tienen hijos emigrados en California y otra que no.
{"title":"Migración, familias transnacionales y vejez en la experiencia maya yucateca en Yucatán","authors":"Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.30","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo discute el impacto de la migración internacional en la población adulta mayor en Yucatán. Se presentan cinco estudios de caso de veintitrés entrevistas a profundidad realizadas a familias transnacionales. En este estudio encontramos que los padres y madres envejecidos que tienen hijos emigrados en California desarrollan un sentido de bienestar y calidad de vida positivo con base en el sostenimiento de redes familiares transnacionales e intergeneracionales, los trabajos del cuidado realizados por la parentela local, y el envío de remesas para el mejoramiento del patrimonio familiar. El análisis de las redes comunitarias y el activismo grupal transnacional, en beneficio de los adultos mayores que no tienen hijos emigrados internacionales, revela grandes desigualdades sociales y económicas entre una parte de la población adulta mayor que tienen hijos emigrados en California y otra que no.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129803130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This first essay witten by one of Guatemala's well known Maya poets expores what it means to be Maya today, across the contemporary diaspora. His title and topic "Ser Maya en el Tiempo y Espacio Actual" inspired our theme title: "To Be Maya Across Time and Space"
{"title":"Ser Maya en el Tiempo y Espacio Actual","authors":"D. Cano","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.1","url":null,"abstract":"This first essay witten by one of Guatemala's well known Maya poets expores what it means to be Maya today, across the contemporary diaspora. His title and topic \"Ser Maya en el Tiempo y Espacio Actual\" inspired our theme title: \"To Be Maya Across Time and Space\"","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116611820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeronimo has been an activist for Maya justice since the 1960s, and a long-time Maya leader in exile. Jeronimo in this essay will discuss his experiences with Maya and U.S. Native American alliances in the 1970s and1980s, and the beginnings of government violence.
{"title":"Native American Connections, Maya Resistance, and Escape from Guatemala: Jeronimo Camposeco's Autobiography","authors":"Jeronimo Camposeco","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.2","url":null,"abstract":"Jeronimo has been an activist for Maya justice since the 1960s, and a long-time Maya leader in exile. Jeronimo in this essay will discuss his experiences with Maya and U.S. Native American alliances in the 1970s and1980s, and the beginnings of government violence.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"23 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116644891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indigenous adoptee scholars understand their identity through community connection, culture, education and practice. In this Storywork, through engagement with current literature and ten research questions, I explored what it meant to be an adoptee in West Coast (KKKanadian) Indigenous communities. An Indigenous Youth Storywork methodology was applied to bring meaning to relationships I have with diverse Indigenous Old Ones, mentors and Knowledge Keepers and their influence on my journey as a Maya adoptee returning to my culture. My personal story was developed and analyzed using an Indigenous decolonial framework and Indigenous Arts-based methods. The intention of this Youth Storywork research work is to create space for Indigenous, Interracial, Transracial and Maya adoptees in Child and Youth Care, Social Work and Counselling Psychology education, policy and practice.
{"title":"Indigenous Youth Storywork: A Spiritual Awakening of a Maya Adoptee living in KKKanada","authors":"Ana Celeste MacLeod","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.36","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous adoptee scholars understand their identity through community connection, culture, education and practice. In this Storywork, through engagement with current literature and ten research questions, I explored what it meant to be an adoptee in West Coast (KKKanadian) Indigenous communities. An Indigenous Youth Storywork methodology was applied to bring meaning to relationships I have with diverse Indigenous Old Ones, mentors and Knowledge Keepers and their influence on my journey as a Maya adoptee returning to my culture. My personal story was developed and analyzed using an Indigenous decolonial framework and Indigenous Arts-based methods. The intention of this Youth Storywork research work is to create space for Indigenous, Interracial, Transracial and Maya adoptees in Child and Youth Care, Social Work and Counselling Psychology education, policy and practice.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133375904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When we think of tourism or migration, we think of international mobility. However, the history of Quintana Roo teaches us that tourism and migration can be forces of nationalization. This article invites us to revisit the history of the southeast Yucatan peninsula, in order to understand the mechanisms that presided over its inclusion into the Mexican nation and the logic of the resistance movement that was opposed to it. Furthermore, this article delves into the ritual practices, social organization and territoriality inherited from the Cast War, that are kept alive by the rebels’ descendants (Cruzoob), unbeknownst to the gaze of the tourists and migrants who currently inhabit the region. How did the Cruzoob negotiate an identity as Indigenous to the nation, without losing sight of their sense of territorial sovereignty? At the time of the development of the Mayan Train, what are the challenges of the potential touristification of the Cast War? These are some questions that this article proposes to shed light on, in conversation with historical and anthropological readings, and drawing on ethnographic material collected in Tulum.
{"title":"A rebel territory behind the tourist scene: Negotiating national belonging and indigeneity in Quintana Roo","authors":"Mélissa Elbez","doi":"10.32727/26.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"When we think of tourism or migration, we think of international mobility. However, the history of Quintana Roo teaches us that tourism and migration can be forces of nationalization. This article invites us to revisit the history of the southeast Yucatan peninsula, in order to understand the mechanisms that presided over its inclusion into the Mexican nation and the logic of the resistance movement that was opposed to it. Furthermore, this article delves into the ritual practices, social organization and territoriality inherited from the Cast War, that are kept alive by the rebels’ descendants (Cruzoob), unbeknownst to the gaze of the tourists and migrants who currently inhabit the region. How did the Cruzoob negotiate an identity as Indigenous to the nation, without losing sight of their sense of territorial sovereignty? At the time of the development of the Mayan Train, what are the challenges of the potential touristification of the Cast War? These are some questions that this article proposes to shed light on, in conversation with historical and anthropological readings, and drawing on ethnographic material collected in Tulum.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132805807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El presente artículo explora la tradición oral yucateca contemporánea y se enfoca en algunos géneros didácticos relacionados con la performatividad enunciativa y con las retóricas corporales en contextos premorten, para dilucidar algunas pautas axiológicas de los narradores y la forma en que aquellos inciden en la confección de marcos éticos y morales sobre la comunicación en sus contextos sociales.
{"title":"“Aquí la haces, aquí la pagas”: La ética de la palabra en algunos exempla del Yucatán contemporáneo","authors":"","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.27","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo explora la tradición oral yucateca contemporánea y se enfoca en algunos géneros didácticos relacionados con la performatividad enunciativa y con las retóricas corporales en contextos premorten, para dilucidar algunas pautas axiológicas de los narradores y la forma en que aquellos inciden en la confección de marcos éticos y morales sobre la comunicación en sus contextos sociales.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115611979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
En este comentario se esboza brevemente lo que significa la institucionalización de las lenguas indígenas nacionales en México y se discute el nuevo planteamiento de la patrimonialización de la lengua maya. Se revisan los planteamientos, objetivos, alcances y tareas que han llevado a un ejercio efectivo y crítico de la refuncionalización de la lengua maya en la Península de Yucatán.
{"title":"¿Hacia dónde va la lengua maya de la Península de Yucatán? Entre institucionalización y patrimonialización","authors":"Fidencio Briceño Chel","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.34","url":null,"abstract":"En este comentario se esboza brevemente lo que significa la institucionalización de las lenguas indígenas nacionales en México y se discute el nuevo planteamiento de la patrimonialización de la lengua maya. Se revisan los planteamientos, objetivos, alcances y tareas que han llevado a un ejercio efectivo y crítico de la refuncionalización de la lengua maya en la Península de Yucatán.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125766588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, I explore how vulnerability is imposed on diasporic Indigenous students in U.S. classrooms and how, through the arts, language and literacy educators can remove these vulnerabilities. For this, I weave elements of storytelling to first introduce Mariela and diasporic Indigenous students. Then, I share two examples of how my diasporic Indigenous students used poetry and drawing in our high school English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classroom to overcome vulnerabilities imposed on them by our school system. For clarification, throughout this manuscript, I use the term diasporic Indigenous students to describe Indigenous students who migrated to the United States from territories known today as Latin America. My hope is that the experiences described in this article will urge literacy and language educators to consider vulnerability as a condition imposed on students rather than as a characteristic or deficiency that learners bring with them.
{"title":"Brave Storytelling: Diasporic Indigenous Students, Vulnerability, and the Arts","authors":"Luis Javier Pentón Herrera","doi":"10.32727/26.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explore how vulnerability is imposed on diasporic Indigenous students in U.S. classrooms and how, through the arts, language and literacy educators can remove these vulnerabilities. For this, I weave elements of storytelling to first introduce Mariela and diasporic Indigenous students. Then, I share two examples of how my diasporic Indigenous students used poetry and drawing in our high school English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classroom to overcome vulnerabilities imposed on them by our school system. For clarification, throughout this manuscript, I use the term diasporic Indigenous students to describe Indigenous students who migrated to the United States from territories known today as Latin America. My hope is that the experiences described in this article will urge literacy and language educators to consider vulnerability as a condition imposed on students rather than as a characteristic or deficiency that learners bring with them.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125013854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Este artículo se trata de que significa ser Maya durante y después de migración a los EEUU desde el área Kaqchikel de Guatemala. Utilizando entrevistas con emigrantes retornados, historias de vida, e otras evidencias etnográficas, señalamos como la vida americana se integra en comunidades Kaqchikeles mayas tras procesos transnacionales. Sugerimos que los resultados de una vida maya-américa se integran en las comunidades de origen en formas que no son tan obvias pero que sí tienen impacto en la vida maya en los pueblos de origen. Por ejemplo, consideramos las relaciones de género dentro de casas en cual alguien se ha ido a los EEUU. Consideramos también el consumo diario, la dieta, y la preparación de comida en familias con migrantes. El idioma y la integración de ciertos palabras de inglés al hablo de hablantes del Kaqchikel es tema importante. La ropa es otra forma en cual la vida americana afecta la vida maya. Se plantea que la ganga de remesas sociales y financiales es un resultado y característica de la migración bajo el régimen económico neoliberal, lo cual esfuerza la gente maya luchar por sus familias tras la migración.
{"title":"Maya-americanos en casa: Los efectos de la migración de Guatemala a los EEUU en la región Kaqchikel","authors":"J. Bennett, Ambrocia Cuma","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.14","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo se trata de que significa ser Maya durante y después de migración a los EEUU desde el área Kaqchikel de Guatemala. Utilizando entrevistas con emigrantes retornados, historias de vida, e otras evidencias etnográficas, señalamos como la vida americana se integra en comunidades Kaqchikeles mayas tras procesos transnacionales. Sugerimos que los resultados de una vida maya-américa se integran en las comunidades de origen en formas que no son tan obvias pero que sí tienen impacto en la vida maya en los pueblos de origen. Por ejemplo, consideramos las relaciones de género dentro de casas en cual alguien se ha ido a los EEUU. Consideramos también el consumo diario, la dieta, y la preparación de comida en familias con migrantes. El idioma y la integración de ciertos palabras de inglés al hablo de hablantes del Kaqchikel es tema importante. La ropa es otra forma en cual la vida americana afecta la vida maya. Se plantea que la ganga de remesas sociales y financiales es un resultado y característica de la migración bajo el régimen económico neoliberal, lo cual esfuerza la gente maya luchar por sus familias tras la migración.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128835982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}