Brave Storytelling: Diasporic Indigenous Students, Vulnerability, And The Arts,
2022
University of Warsaw
Brave Storytelling: Diasporic Indigenous Students, Vulnerability, And The Arts, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
In this article, I explore how vulnerability is imposed on diasporic Indigenous students in U.S. classrooms and how, through the arts, language and literacy educators can remove these vulnerabilities. For this, I weave elements of storytelling to first introduce Mariela and diasporic Indigenous students. Then, I share two examples of how my diasporic Indigenous students used poetry and drawing in our high school English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classroom to overcome vulnerabilities imposed on them by our school system. For clarification, throughout this manuscript, I use the term diasporic Indigenous students to describe Indigenous students who migrated to …
Introduction: Tourism In The Lands Of The Maya,
2022
UNAM
Introduction: Tourism In The Lands Of The Maya, Cristina Oehmichen
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
English Introductory Note
Conjuro De Las Nueve Palabras,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Conjuro De Las Nueve Palabras, Donny Limber De Atocha Brito May
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Conjuro de las Nueve Palabras es un poema original de Donny Limber de Atocha Brito May. Este poema en español ha sido traducido del maya yucateco que también aparece en este número de América Maya.
Biographies/Biografías,
2022
UNAM
Biographies/Biografías, Cristina Oehmichen, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Author Biographies
Complete Issue: Volume 4 Issue 2,
2022
UNAM
Complete Issue: Volume 4 Issue 2, Cristina Oehmichen, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
The full Issue 2, Volume 4 of Maya America, published December 2022
Viaje Por Las Ruinas De Una Antigua Civilización En Yucatán: Alfred Tozzer Y Chichén, 1902,
2022
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
Viaje Por Las Ruinas De Una Antigua Civilización En Yucatán: Alfred Tozzer Y Chichén, 1902, José Luis Escalona Victoria
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
El trabajo muestra las condiciones para visitar las ruinas de una ciudad antigua ubicadas en la finca Chichén, en la península de Yucatán, en 1902. A pesar de que en esa época se habían ampliado las posibilidades de trasladar productos y personas y de visitar la península, gracias al transporte de vapor por agua y tierra, aún faltarían otros cambios (servicios turísticos) para modificar la forma de pasear por lo que se volvería uno de los sitios arqueológicos más visitados en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Las notas de campo de uno de los antropólogos que estaban en ese …
Prince Jaguar,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Prince Jaguar, Ismael Briceño Mukul
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
“Prince Jaguar” is an original poem by Ismael Briceño Mukul, a well-known Maya poet and scholar. This poem in English has been translated from the Yucatec Maya that also appears in this issue of Maya America.
Príncipe Jaguar,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Príncipe Jaguar, Ismael Briceño Mukul
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
"Príncipe Jaguar" es un poema original de Ismael Briceño Mukul. Este poema en español ha sido traducido del maya yucateco que también aparece en este número de América Maya.
Incantation Of The Nine Words,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Incantation Of The Nine Words, Donny Limber De Atocha Brito May
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Incantation of the Nine Words is an original poem by Donny Limber Brito May. This poem in Yucatec Maya and in Spanish also appears in this issue of Maya America.
U Kunali’ Bolon T’Aano’Ob,
2022
Kennesaw State University
U Kunali’ Bolon T’Aano’Ob, Donny Limber De Atocha Brito May
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Poema original de Donny Limber de Atocha Brito May en Yucatec Maya
Seated On The Bank Of The Yichk’U River,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Seated On The Bank Of The Yichk’U River, Daniel Caño
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
The six poems included here are presented in Q’anjob’al Maya and in English, side by side for language comparison. Collectively, the poems convey reflections on the poet’s renderings of beauty, wisdom, romance, and the natural world; in a style of eloquence amplified by directness and brevity. Glimpses of village, family, childhood and old age, life and death, are interwoven with cosmological wisdoms. Palpable resentment toward the Church and ladinos are graciously tempered with lightness and humor. Reprinted from “Sentado en la orilla del río Yichk’u “ POE Talleras, (2018) Huehuetenango, Guatemala, with permission from the author and publishers.
Sentado En La Orilla Del Río Yichk’U,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Sentado En La Orilla Del Río Yichk’U, Daniel Caño
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
La poesía y las historias de Daniel Caño nos hablan sobre la vitalidad de su cultura y su lengua. Los seis poemas que se incluyen se presentan en la lengua maya Q'anjob'al y en español, uno al lado del otro para su comparación. Los poemas transmiten un conjunto de reflexiones acerca de la interpretación del poeta sobre la belleza, la sabiduría, el romance y el mundo natural; en un estilo de elocuencia enaltecido por la franqueza y la brevedad de la palabra. Las visiones del pueblo, de la familia, de la infancia y la vejez, y de la vida y …
Apuntes Para Comentar El Libro "Sentado En La Orilla Del Río Yichk’U",
2022
Kennesaw State University
Apuntes Para Comentar El Libro "Sentado En La Orilla Del Río Yichk’U", Sergio Vives
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Sentado en la orilla del río Yichk’u, es el título de un trabajo en el que Daniel Caño nos invita con la generosidad que le caracteriza a acompañarlo en un viaje por distintos episodios de su vida iniciando precisamente en el escenario de la orilla de ese río que corre y que forma parte de la vida cotidiana de la comunidad Payconob´, la misma que le vio nacer en territorio ancestral del pueblo maya Q’anjob’al en lo que hoy conocemos como el municipio de Santa Eulalia. En esta obra su autor entrelaza elementos simbólicos de la cosmovisión maya con momentos …
Análisis Discursivo Del Tren Maya: Fragmentación Territorial De Una Promesa Desarrollista,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Análisis Discursivo Del Tren Maya: Fragmentación Territorial De Una Promesa Desarrollista, Ivet Reyes Maturano
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
La Península de Yucatán, al sur de la República Mexicana vive una profunda transformación derivada de la implementación de proyectos de gran infraestructura tanto públicos como privados. Tal es el caso del proyecto denominado Tren Maya (TM) y megaproyectos energéticos. Si bien existen varios estudios referentes a los posibles efectos socioambientales relativos al carácter material de estos megaproyectos, en este breve trabajo me pregunto cómo la dimensión discursiva, no material, del proyecto TM sustenta su despliegue y afecta la reconfiguración territorial. Específicamente, describo cómo los análisis técnicos de estos proyectos recurren a la fragmentación del territorio y de los proyectos …
Bàalam Ajaw,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Bàalam Ajaw, Ismael Briceño Mukul
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Bàalam Ajaw es un poema original de Ismael Briceño Mukul in his Yucatec Maya language. Se presentó en español y en inglés en otro lugar de esta revista bajo el título Príncipe Jaguar y Prince Jaguar.
The King’S Final Journey: American Press Coverage Of King Kalākaua’S Last Visit To The United States, 1890–1891,
2022
Hawai‘i Pacific University
The King’S Final Journey: American Press Coverage Of King Kalākaua’S Last Visit To The United States, 1890–1891, Douglas V. Askman
Pacific Studies
King Kalākaua of Hawai‘i undertook several overseas trips during his reign. The last was to California in 1890. It was there that the king died in January 1891. This article explores American press coverage of Kalākaua’s last journey. It examines the enormous amount of attention that California newspapers paid to the king’s travels in the state with much of the reporting being extremely positive. This was similar to coverage of Kalākaua’s previous trips to the United States. Following the monarch’s death, papers across America reflected on his reign. This analysis, although not entirely complimentary, reflects the great success that Kalākaua …
Vol. 45 No. 2 (2022): Pacific Studies Front Matter,
2022
Brigham Young University–Hawaiʻi
Vol. 45 No. 2 (2022): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Studies
Front Matter for the Vol. 45, No 2-Dec 2022 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.
The Dream Of Property: Law And Environment In William T. Vollmann’S Dying Grass And Leslie Marmon Silko’S Almanac Of The Dead,
2022
Bucknell University
The Dream Of Property: Law And Environment In William T. Vollmann’S Dying Grass And Leslie Marmon Silko’S Almanac Of The Dead, Ted Hamilton
Faculty Journal Articles
This article describes how the law inflects the narration of environmental conflict in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass (2015) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). By focusing on the legal common sense of settler colonialism—its emphasis on private property in land and its subjugation of Indigenous peoples to the guardianship of the state—the article explores the ways in which Vollmann’s and Silko’s novels present counternarratives to the law’s story of justified conquest. Combining a law and literature approach with ecocriticism, this article highlights the importance of the legal imagination in defining human-land relations in the United States. …
The Book Of Revelation In Nafe (Kwamera): William Watt’S Translations And Loanwords,
2022
University of Tulsa
The Book Of Revelation In Nafe (Kwamera): William Watt’S Translations And Loanwords, Lamont Lindstrom
Pacific Studies
William Watt, Presbyterian missionary on Tanna (1869–1910), published a Nafe (Kwamera) language translation of the KJV New Testament in 1890. He had earlier produced Kwamera versions of the Gospels as soon as linguistic skills permitted, but the full New Testament translation was not completed until the late 1880s and printed in Glasgow during a mission leave (1889–1890). Watt worked with island pundits, and he relied on his wife Agnes’s linguistic expertise. Revelation’s allusions and obscurities presented significant difficulties of translation. I offer a close reading of Watt’s translated book of Revelation—Nari Kenamsasani (sasani means “display”)—tracking his grammatical choices, his …
Vol. 45 No. 2 (2022): Pacific Studies Full Issue,
2022
Brigham Young University–Hawaiʻi
Vol. 45 No. 2 (2022): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Studies
Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …
