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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Mayan"”.
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Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology
… is to study modern grinding stones used by Mayans living in Guatemala to better understand manos and metates used by ancient peoples. I worked for two field seasons in Guatemala recording the life histories of manos and metates used by the Q'eqchi' and K'iche', two contemporary Mayan groups. …
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Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity :
… of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. I argue that the appearance of split ergativity in the language follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is not. …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fourth World. This …
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Literacy Practices in a Changing Cultural Context: The Literacy Development of Two Emergent Mayan-Spanish Bilingual Children
… document the multiple literacy practices of two Mayan families living in a rural community in Yucatan, Mexico. It explores how young emergent bilingual children make sense of written language through their everyday practices. Data includes field notes from participants observations, video and …
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"""Que No Olviden Su Cultura, Y Tambien El Idioma"": A Case Study of Mayan Literacy Revival in the 'Pan -Maya Culture and Language Revitalization Movement' in Guatemala"
This study examines Mayan literacy revival in the context of a Mayan language and culture revitalization movement occurring in Guatemala. It aspires to follow in the tradition of the New Literacy Studies. The research takes the form of a case study of two communities, Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, …
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Papel de la etnicidad en la sociedad yucateca, El: una continuación del colonialismo interno en el sur de México
… processes, a stigmatization developed toward the Mayan ethnic group, and an admiration toward the Ladino ethnic group. The result of said processes is the presence of an internal colonialism in the peninsula in which there exists a dominate class (of the ladino population) and an exploited class …
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Evangelical Dictatorship Driving the Guatemalan Civil War: Reconsidering Ríos Montt, the “Savior of La Nueva Guatemala”
… is that their meddling also intensified the Mayan genocide during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-96). This thesis explores the complicit relationship of religion and politics in the Guatemalan Civil War, focusing on the evangelical dictator Efraín Ríos Montt’s regime (1982-83). Firstly, it …
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Default ergative
… this thesis, I investigate (split) ergativity in Mayan languages (mainly Kaqchikel, Chol, Q'anjob'al and Ixil) as a testing ground for the plausibility of the hypothesis that phase head Case exists, and is the correct analysis of certain phenomena generally analyzed as instances of ergative …
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Masks and transformations
… Inspired by my studies of Ancient American (Mayan and Anasazi) art and archaeology, I use the jaguar, the bird, the snake and man in metaphoric allegory to parallel the four stages of life. All ideas and expressions in my artwork and in my thesis paper are personal and represent my own view …
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The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection
… interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry (DOMA) (Holmberg et al., 2019). In certain Mayan languages, subject but not object wh-questions require the verb to take a special intransitive-looking form; in many languages with …
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Taak in Sutik (I Want to Return)
… 21st century contemporary Maya:</p> <p>* How do Mayan languages influence a worldview different than the westernized, globalized worldview?</p> <p>* How do the media, especially through movies, portray the Maya and other indigenous groups unfairly?</p> <p>* How have the descendants of the Maya …
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Exploring new work: a personal reflection art critique in the world of prints
… artists and elements of pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan artwork. I will discuss briefly technical processes and emphasize visual concepts. In viewing several examples of my own prints and exploring the makeup of these pieces, one can better understand the delicate balance between the earthly …
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Ruination
… which is bidding on a concession to excavate the Mayan ruins at Chichén Itzá. As governor, Felipe attempts to break the caste system of Yucatecan society and improve the lot of the impoverished Maya through land redistribution, education, women's suffrage, and access to birth control. His plans …
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The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy
… initiative in urban US settings, but since 1997 Mayan, Yup'ik and Cherokee iterations have been created, as well as on-campus bridge courses for non-traditional students to explore college-level education in Canada and the USA. The course potentially conflicts with critical pedagogy because the …
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Women's lives in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and their experiences with the 'capacitar practices' for transforming trauma: an embodied enquiry.
… co-researchers (Mexican, Mexican-American, Mayan, White American) who live in the twin cities of El Paso (Texas, U.S.) and Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico), who were thus exposed to the constant threat of lethal violence and so-called femicide, to discrimination and the socioeconomic …
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Vonnegut's criticisms of modern society
… sides of the globe, like the Babylonian and the Mayan. Western Civilization may be no exception; many historians suspect that it also can be viewed as cyclical in its development and some further assert that it is presently in its final stage—dissolution.</p>
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Agreement as a fallible operation
… examines data from the Kichean languages of the Mayan family (primarily from Kaqchikel), as well as from Basque, Icelandic, and French.
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Teaching Inside Out in Appalachia: Identity Development of Insider/Outsider Teachers
… Appalachia," I use qualitative research methods (Mayan, 2016) to delve into the experiences of teachers who have come to communities in Appalachia from outside the region, and I interrogate the implications of their experiences. This study can serve as a guide to teachers preparing for or …
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Remapping territorial faultlines: Conflicts between separatist groups and host states
… Kosovar resistance to Serbian ethnic-cleansing, Mayan (Zapatistas) autonomy claims in Mexico, and the Ogoni struggle for land control in Nigeria testify to the diversity and scope of ongoing state versus nation conflicts. Since most states "host" several ethnonational or indigenous groups within …
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