{"title":"When Skiills and Knowledge are not Enough","authors":"Nitz' Ama' y","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.8","url":null,"abstract":"Although the author received his GED diploma and has taken courses to be able to interpret from native K'iche' language to the English language; he has been unable to work as an interpreter due to the lack of the social security number.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122734173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soy el Hijo del Sol","authors":"Jesus Cristobal Pat Chable","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.32","url":null,"abstract":"En 2009 inicio su carrera de rapero como solista, promoviendo su primer rap en lengua maya. Eligió su nombre artístico Pat Boy, ya que “Pat” significa darle forma a algo o crear algo nuevo, una palabra en la lengua de sus ancestros mayas (como Jacinto Pat) que fueron luchadores de a guerra social maya. Su trabajo se enfoca en el fortalecimiento de la lengua maya y con sus canciones la difunde más allá de las fronteras para los jóvenes y personas de todas las edades. Si objetivo es llegar a nuevos horizontes, marcando su propio estilo. Sus temas hablan sobre la vida cotidiana de un maya: tradiciones, costumbres, educación, el amor, reflexiones de la vida y la lucha social. Fusiona su Rap con otros géneros musicales como el Reggae, Pop, y Reggaetón.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126473222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emigrar: Vale la Pena","authors":"Pablo Marcos Martin","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.22","url":null,"abstract":"In this short but comprehensive essay where prose bridges poetry, Pablo Marcos Martin summarizes the immigrant experience in six steps, and reveals the multiple characteristics and the multiple outcomes of the immigration experience. Originally published in 2006, this essay remains profoundly pertinent to the study of survival migration, including family separation, the journey to the border, consequences of choice and circumstance, and the possibilities for failure as well as for happiness.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132098884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From There to Here: My Maya Journey and Life in America","authors":"Carmelina M Cadena","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this personal commentary, Carmelina tell how she fled Guatemala when a small child, walking the journey with her mother.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122551008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Community Partnerships on Maya Children's Identity","authors":"Joel Judd, S. Ludwig","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.5","url":null,"abstract":"In Alamosa, Colorado, partnerships among university faculty, school teachers, a local non-profit, and Maya families established programs over several years thart enabled students to develop and assert their identity in school, while assisting parents in cultivating aspects of Maya identity at home and in the community.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125780467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring Levels on Collectivism and Individualism with One Maya Volunteer","authors":"David J. Galban, Gilbero Simon","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.4","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring levels of collectivism and individualism among Maya living in the United States will help us understand, among other variables, their struggles, and the consequences of migrating to the most individualist nation on earth.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131486376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STORIES FROM A TOWN IN GUATEMALA - TZIJONΪK RICHIN JUN TINAMΪTAJ CHI IXIMULEW - HISTORIAS DE UN PUEBLO DE GUATEMALA","authors":"Hana Muzika Kahn, Jonathan Holmquist","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122395453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Am I? A Reflection of the In-between","authors":"Maya Figueroa Ferreira","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"Adopted before her memory, the personal experiences of the author serve to interrogate the mass exportation and importation of Maya babies. In recounting her search for meaning and reconciliation, she presents to Maya and Non-Maya valuable insights into an expanded meaning for “Maya America”.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131561776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Maya Migrant: A Journey of No Return","authors":"Gaspar Pedro González","doi":"10.32727/26.2021.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2021.37","url":null,"abstract":"After years of listening to Maya migrants in the United states and listening to migrants forced back to Guatemala, the novella’s author Gaspar Pedro González created the story of Palas and Malkal, man and wife. The story begins with a discussion of the causes behind migration, and then proceeds to Palas while he arranges his trip with the coyote, makes his goodbyes to his family and community, makes the overland passage through Mexico, and when finally in the United States finds some hopes and plans unobtainable. Palas, and his family left behind in Guatemala, will encounter challenges to their cultural traditions, their personal and community identities, their values and the way they see the world and life, and their personal, family and community relations. The original Spanish version was published in Maya America in Volume 2 Number 2 (2020).","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"363 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134479122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viaje por las Ruinas de una Antigua Civilización en Yucatán: Alfred Tozzer y Chichén, 1902","authors":"José Luis Escalona Victoria","doi":"10.32727/26.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32727/26.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"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 lugar al iniciar el siglo, Alfred Tozzer, permiten justamente conocer esas condiciones previas a la instalación de los servicios turísticos contemporáneos.","PeriodicalId":154070,"journal":{"name":"Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122875225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}