
Human Rights in the Maya Region
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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 / Julián López García 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 Quiché / 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
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