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Maya in Exile Allan Burns

Maya in Exile By Allan Burns

Maya in Exile by Allan Burns


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The Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the US, and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture.

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Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida by Allan Burns

The Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Maya fled the terror of Guatemalan civil strife to safety in Mexico and the U.S. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown, a small agricultural community in south central Florida, presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the U.S., and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture. For more than a decade, Allan F. Burns has been researching and doing advocacy work for these immigrant Maya, who speak Kanjobal, Quiche, Mamana, and several other of the more than thirty distinct languages in southern Mexico and Guatemala. In this fist book on the Guatemalan Maya in the U.S, he uses their many voices to communicate the experience of the Maya in Florida and describes the advantages and results of applied anthropology in refugee studies and cultural adaptation.Burns describes the political and social background of the Guatemalan immigrants to the U.S. and includes personal accounts of individual strategies for leaving Guatemala and traveling to Florida. Examining how they interact with the community and recreate a Maya society in the U.S., he considers how low-wage labor influences the social structure of Maya immigrant society and discusses the effects of U.S. immigration policy on these refugees.

Maya in Exile Reviews

Effectively interweaving ethnography and applied anthropology, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the complex issues involving resettlement. The inclusion of Maya voices is particularly evocative, helping to personalize the challenges associated with changing family roles, community structure, and ethnic identities.
-James Loucky, Professor of Anthropology, Western Washington University

About Allan Burns

Allan F. Burns is Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. The author of An Epoch of Miracles, he has produced four video programs on Maya refugees in Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Jeronimo Camposeco
1. Maya Refugees and Applied Anthropology
2. Escape and Arrival
3. Life Crisis and Ritual
4. The Maya in Community and Ethnic Context
5. Work and Changes in Social Structure
6. Conflict and the Evolution of a New Maya Identity
7. Visual Anthropology and the Maya
8. Always Maya
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

CIN1566390362G
9781566390361
1566390362
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida by Allan Burns
Used - Good
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
1993-06-22
256
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