Human Rights in the Maya Region

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 / Julian Lopez Garcia 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 Quiche / 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

Cultural rights · Fundamental rights · Geography · Human rights · Humanities · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · International human rights law · Land law · Land tenure · Linguistic rights · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Philosophy · Chiapas · Chiapas (Mexico) · ethnic relations · Government relations · guatemala · Legal status, laws · Legal status, laws, etc · Mayas · Mexico · Social conditions

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• In and Out of Rights

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• Acts of Genocide

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• Race

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• Breaking the Maya Code

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• Conclusion

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• Agency and Empowerment under Unlikely Conditions

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• Introduction

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