Dissertation Research: Ethnic Identities and Nation-Building in Guatemala: Mayan Participation and StateLegitimation Strategies

本研究的重点是危地马拉玛雅人在35年内战的背景下，试图建立一个文明的、多元文化的、无所不的国家。最近，越来越多的玛雅群体试图在多元文化国家的背景下定义自己，同时保持某种种族认同感。PI希望阐明的关键问题是这样一个事实，即国家由各种利益集团组成，这些利益集团在努力阐明某种形式的国家认同时相互竞争和合作。这一过程将通过采访政府、企业、军队、民族等各界人士，分析他们在媒体、庆典、旅游文学、政治集会上发表的发言等方式进行调查。

This research focuses on attempts by Mayan peoples in Guatemala to create a civil, multicultural, and all encompassing state in the context of 35 year civil war. Recently there has been an increase in the number of Mayan groups who are attempting to define themselves in the context of a multicultural state and, at the same, time maintain some sense of ethnic identity. The key issue the PI hopes to illuminate is the fact that states consist of a variety of interest groups which compete and cooperate as they struggle to articulate some form of a national identity. This process will be examined by interviewing leaders in government, business, military, and ethnic sectors and analyzing their statements presented i the media, at festivals, tourism literature, and political rallies.