The Emergence of Human Rights in the Mayan World: Rural Church and Indigenous Activism in Guatemala, 1943-1983- [electronic resource]
The Emergence of Human Rights in the Mayan World: Rural Church and Indigenous Activism in Guatemala, 1943-1983- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214095858
- ISBN
- 9798380598903
- DDC
- 980
- 서명/저자
- The Emergence of Human Rights in the Mayan World: Rural Church and Indigenous Activism in Guatemala, 1943-1983 - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of Minnesota., 2021
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2021
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(348 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: McNamara, Patrick;Chambers, Sarah.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2021.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach of History and Human Rights to discuss the organization and activism of Indigenous Catholic communities which preceded and shaped the human rights movement of the 1980s in Guatemala. By focusing on the departments of Huehuetenango and El Quiche from 1943 to 1983, I argue that the human rights movement in Guatemala that called attention to the country's deep historical roots of racism and discrimination was the result of the activism carried out by Indigenous communities in connection to the Catholic Church. I use the term "Rural Church" to refer to these communities of Catholics from the departments of Huehuetenango and El Quiche that focused on enhancing the living conditions of the poor and marginalized; since the 1950s members of the Rural Church worked on organizing cooperatives, colonizing new lands, studying the structures of inequality, as well as advancing the teaching of the gospel. By tracing the concept of the Rural Church, this dissertation highlights the importance of rural society and the influence that marginalized and Indigenous communities had on the Catholic Church in Guatemala. This dissertation engages extensively with unpublished archival documentation including the local efforts of De Sol a Sol ("From Sunrise to Sunset") and Ixim ("Corn" in Maya K'iche) which feature the efforts of Indigenous and local intellectuals to discuss the connections between race, ethnicity, class, and inequality. My archival approach is influenced by the Mayan cyclical view of time which highlights the survival of Mayan people despite numerous attempts of eradication and genocide against their communities.
- 일반주제명
- Latin American history.
- 일반주제명
- Latin American studies.
- 일반주제명
- History.
- 키워드
- Activism
- 키워드
- Guatemala
- 키워드
- Human rights
- 키워드
- Mayan people
- 키워드
- Rural Church
- 기타저자
- University of Minnesota History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-04A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.