INDILANGHISTCULT · Indigenous Language, History and Culture: Politics, Writing and the Decolonization of Knowledge amongst the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico, 1970-2015
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2018-08-01 → 2020-09-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 212 195 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MSCA-IF-EF-CAR
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Накратко на български
Връзката между езика, политиката и идентичността на маите в Мексико се анализира чрез тяхната литература, двуезичното образование и дигиталните медии. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на културата им и преосмисляне на историята им, вместо да се разчита само на западни теории.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Indigenous Language, History and Culture: Politics, Writing and the Decolonization of Knowledge amongst the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico, 1970-2015
• The issues being addressed The project set out to develop new understandings of the relationship between writing, politics, and identity amongst indigenous peoples in Chiapas, Mexico, since 1970. The first part analyzed contemporary indigenous literature and historical narratives, particularly in relation to the writing and artistic expression of pre and early conquest Maya. The second part of the project examined the importance of digital media for the diffusion of literacy in Maya languages in the last 10-15 years. The third part of the project examined the development of bi-lingual education and literacy in Maya languages to analyze the relationship between politics, writing, and cultural expression. In particular, it sought to understand the influence of radical religious and political organizations, and movements for indigenous rights and culture on the development of literature and the decolonization of native histories and identities. • Overall objectives The objective of the research programme was to provide a new understanding of Maya culture, and to explore the relationship between indigenous language, literature, education, political activism, technology, writing, communication and identity amongst Maya peoples in recent years. It also aimed to contribute new knowledge and ideas to debates regarding the decolonization of history, culture and identity in nation-states. • Main conclusions In the last forty years, artists, writers and intellectuals from Maya communities in Chiapas have increasingly begun to question and problematize the concepts and theories used to describe and analyze their societies by western intellectuals in disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and history. These include the concepts of ethnicity and indigeneity and ideas of continuity and rupture between ancient and modern populations. Respondents were largely in agreement that the greater availability of digital media had not had a significant impact on the diffusion of literacy in Maya languages in the last 10-15 years, although, it had increased communication and inclusion particularly amongst young people and women, who were connected to more people, opportunities and ways of thinking over greater distances than before. The research also found that the state has played a pivotal role in the development of bi-lingual education, literacy, literature and artistic expression in native languages in Chiapas from the 1970s, thus pointing to a false dichotomy between civil society and the state in relation to indigenous rights and culture in Chiapas and Mexico more broadly. Indeed, ethno-narratives of cultural re-vindication have in practice relied upon and come to strengthen the national state and nationalist episteme.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
In the 1980s, in a context of growing indigenous political activism, the Maya in Chiapas began to write and publish their own history in their own languages for the first time since the conquest. Just a few years before, Maya hieroglyphic writing – the last ancient script to be deciphered by modern scholars – was decoded as a logo-phonetic writing system with significant similarities to present-day Maya languages. These intellectual innovations have opened the door to the development of new understandings of the Maya past and present and the decolonization of knowledge produced by and about Maya peoples. This project aims to develop new interpretations of contemporary Maya historical narratives in Chiapas by using the most recent scholarship on ancient Maya writing and literacy to analyze a selection of texts produced in Maya languages in Chiapas since the 1980s, and to consider how innovations in scientific understandings of the ancient Maya have impacted upon contemporary Maya historians and writers. It also aims to use qualitative interviewing methods in order to understand: first, the relationship between bi-lingual education, the development of new Maya historiographies, and political activism from the 1970s; and second, how the use of digital media by indigenous people in Chiapas has revolutionized communication, consciousness and inclusion amongst a new generation of Maya in the last 10-15 years. It will bring together modern historical and social science research perspectives and methods, archaeological, epigraphic and linguistic expertise, indigenous cultural and historical knowledge and technological awareness to develop new understandings of Chiapas's Maya peoples, and will thus constitute an original, innovative and cross-disciplinary contribution to studies of history, communication and consciousness amongst indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica and beyond.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNКоординаторДания
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз