Vulnerable identities

Maya Yucatec identities in a postmodern world

Bibliographic Data

ID5843835
AuthorsJuan Castillo Cocom (Florida International University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Publication date2000-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeTHESIS
PublisherFlorida International University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25148/etd.fi14060112
OpenAlexW1597186759
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited37

In numerous anthropological works there have been preoccupations about the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Whatever social researchers have concluded, one thing is consistent: the tendency to interpret ethnographic "data" in terms of binary oppositions. This dissertation reviews the works which have been centered upon binary oppositions, as for instance, in the case of Yucatan, between the Maya and the Dzul-the Yucatec Maya term for white males-and highlights the fact that such works have failed to recognize that within and between each "pole," or social group there are individuals that have multiple identities, and that do not recognize themselves as belonging to a homogenized "pole." Instead, these individuals, recognize themselves as belonging to different groups and, therefore, being aware that they have not a single identity but multiple ones

Aesthetics · Art · Binary opposition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Genealogy · Indigenous · Maya · Postmodernism · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America

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