Representing political identities in Indigenous Movements: A Comparative study between Mexico and Guatemala

我们的人种学研究项目澄清了墨西哥和危地马拉土著运动的政治身份。本研究特别检视他们的“本土性”概念与各种“民主诉求运动”，例如自治权、使用母语权、语言复兴计划、反歧视运动、土地保有权冲突、反采矿运动、政治参与国家与地方政府等，我们可以大致找出两个与各种历史、这些民主要求运动中的社会和政治因素;（a）土著“抵抗”的有争议的情况，这是我们可以从其社区之外观察到的他们的创造性政治文化;（B）他们的“身份建构和土著性的形成”，这是他们的社区成员身份可以产生的文化政治的一部分。

Our ethnographic research project clarified the political identities of indigenous movements in both Mexico and Guatemala. Specifically this study examines their own concept of "indigenity" relating with various their "democratic demand movements" e.g. the right of autonomy, right of use of native language, language revitalization program, anti-discrimination movement, land-tenure conflict, anti-mining movement, political participation in both national and local government, and so on. We can identify roughly two major moments entangled with various historical, sociological, and political elements in these democratic demand movements; (a) contested situation of indigenous "resistance" as their creative political culture that we can observe from outside of their communities, and (b) their "identity construction and formation of indigenity" as a part of cultural politics that can be emerged by their community membership.