Honduras: Questions Of Indigeneity And The (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya Of Honduras

Honduras: Questions Of Indigeneity And The (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya Of Honduras Brent Metz, 2010   In the early 1990s, the Honduran Ch'orti's denied their indigenous heritage; within a few years, however, they had formed a fully fledged ethnic movement with thousands of members putting pressure on the government for land. The volatility of such changing identities in an era of indigenous rights and remuneration lends strong support to the social construction approach to group identity,...

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