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Rigoberta Mench Tum

I, Rigoberta Mench

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Rigoberta Mench Tum

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    1. Rigoberta Mench Tum Born in 1959 in Guatemalas department of El Quiche Native language is Quiche (Kiche) Mountainous topography of Quiche: site of much guerilla activity and subsequent army repression

    3. I, Rigoberta Mench: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1983) While living in exile in Mexico, Mench gave a testimonial account of Guatemalas civil war to Elisabeth Burgos Debray David Stoll critique: Mench could not have been eye-witness, account is unreliable

    4. 1992: Mench awarded Nobel Peace Prize (500th anniversary of Columbus arrival to the Americas) Activism towards recognition of indigenous rights throughout the Americas Presidential candidate in 2007

    5. Ethnic Identity Markers in Guatemala Language not easily learned or assumed generally requires intense interaction with native speakers Dress Marker of ethnicity: marks one as indigenous (traje) or ladino (Western clothing) more fluid than language Religion, surnames, phenotype

    6. huipil (pot): blouse corte (uq): skirt faja (ximbal): belt

    7. Dress Dress and fluidity of identity: can emphasize and present different aspects of identity Place specific: traje associated with ethnic group and with specific towns Traje also indicates wealth, age, religion, worldliness of wearer

    8. Elaborate Traje

    10. Cultural Significance of Weaving

    11. Weaving on a Backstrap Loom

    12. Mens Traje Tecpan region: white pants, blue or white shirt, dark wool jacket, hat, sandals Use of traje disappearing among men Greater participation in non-Maya world

    13. Declining Use of Traje Kaqchikel girls not learning how to weave because spend more time on schoolwork Globalization: Influence of television that gives status to Western clothing (shorts, miniskirts, jeans) Ropa americana (second-hand clothing from US sold cheaply in Latin America)

    14. Maya Revitalization Mixing of traje: Solidarity Status Admire beauty of clothing Mens bomber jackets symbolic of participation in Maya movement in 1990s

    15. Maya Movement Cultural revitalization: encourage women to use traje and learn to weave Why dont men return to using traje? Male participation in non-Maya world Impossibility to hide ones identity in traje Did not grow up wearing traje

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