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Local negotiations on "Mayaness": The system of community services in the municipality of Santa Maria, Guatemala

Dueholom Rasch, Elisabet

European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 2010-04, Vol.88 (88), p.3-20 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Local negotiations on "Mayaness": The system of community services in the municipality of Santa Maria, Guatemala
  • Autor: Dueholom Rasch, Elisabet
  • Assuntos: Community Services ; Customs ; Discourse ; Evangelization ; Guatemala ; Identity ; Indigenous Populations ; Indigenous rights ; Maya ; Mayans ; Municipal council ; Politics ; Power ; Rights
  • É parte de: European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 2010-04, Vol.88 (88), p.3-20
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  • Descrição: In July 2003, one of the services in the system of community services was abolished in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala. Yet the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 had marked the beginning of an era in which there was more space for governing in a Mayan way. The abolition of a traditional service within the contest of multicultural politics in Latin America that recognizes the existence of indigenous authorities thus begs the question, on the one hand, about how local processes of identification face up to nationalized and essentialized categories of "Mayaness" that have been defined as a way of demanding indigenous rights and, on the other, about how local power relations have shaped the negotiations concerning 'what is ours' and 'what is Mayan.' This article proposes to frame the identification with "what is Mayan" and "what is ours" within local power relations and religious and political interests. The article is organized along four fields of tension that shape the processes of identification: the cabecera municipal or municipal authority vs the rural areas, evangelization vs local customs, professionalization vs local customs, and finally, the discourse on human and indigenous rights vs local customs. In the final section an analysis of "how the community service came to be extinguished" is presented as a product of those tensions. Adapted from the source document.
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