In Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past. He proposes instead a methodology for studying culture as a unified whole, a radical departure from the compartmentalized sections of knowledge recognized by Western scientific tradition. Offering a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies, with its terms and categories that have denigrated Indigenous cultures throughout the centuries, Montejo's postcolonial work aims to dismantle the colonialist construction of Indigenous cultures, giving way to a Native approach that balances insider and outsider descriptions of a particular culture. Developed from an Indigenous Maya perspective, Mayalogue is a contribution to the dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students, and general audiences in the social sciences and humanities, and will be an essential text in decolonizing the minds of those who engage in the study of cultures anywhere in the world in the twenty-first century.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	258
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	State University of New York Press
Fecha de Publicación	2022-07-02
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.59" pulgadas
Serie	Suny Series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	América Latina, Nativo Americano