Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan
, by Hervik,PeterNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9789057023408 | 9057023407
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/1/1999
Anthropologists, folklorists, the National Geographic, and tourist brochures all refer to the people of the Yucatan as Maya when the people themselves think of the Maya as their long dead ancestors and themselves as mestizos. What does it mean for Maya ethnography that the name provides no bridge between the fields of anthropological science and local practice? In "Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries," Peter Hervik explores this question and its implications through a new approach to ethnography called "shared social experience." The book provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," "text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.