Pitarch / Speed / Leyva-Solano Human Rights in the Maya Region

Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8905-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitarch, Pedro

Speed, Shannon

Leyva-Solano, Xochitl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stavenhagen, Rodolfo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations vii

Introduction / Shannon Speed and 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 / Julián López García 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 Quiché / David Stoll 187

Part 3: Political Engagements

9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed and 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 and 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

Über Autor(innen)

Pedro Pitarch is Professor of Anthropology at the Complutense University in Madrid. His books include Ch’ulel: una etnografía de las almas tzeltales.Shannon Speed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas and a co-editor of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas.Xóchitl Leyva Solano is a researcher and professor at the Centro de Investigaciones e Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Chiapas, México. She is the author of Poder y desarrollo regional and a co-editor of Encuentros Antropologicos: Power, Identity, and Mobility in Mexican Society.