Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries

Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781135392963
ISBN-13 : 113539296X
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Book Synopsis Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries by : Peter Hervik

Download or read book Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries written by Peter Hervik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.


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