Maya Intellectual Renaissance Identity by Victor D. Montejo PAPERBACK

Maya Intellectual RenaissanceIdentity, Representation, and Leadership\nAuthor(s): Victor D. Montejo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292709393, 978-0292709393\nSynopsis\nWhen Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the \""discovery\"" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of the cultural, political, economic, and religious revitalization that occurred in Mayan communities in the later half of the twentieth century. Another result of the revitalization was Mayan students' enrollment in graduate programs in order to reclaim the intellectual history of the brilliant Mayan past. Victor Montejo was one of those students.\n\nThis is the first book to be published outside of Guatemala where a Mayan writer othe.