Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions and Moral Engagements. PEDRO PITARCH, SANNON SPEED, and XOCHITL LEYVA SOLANO (eds.): Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.

Abstract

Over the last decade a dominant and controversial debate has emerged over human rights in the Maya regions of Chiapas and Guatemala. Whether broadly defined as cultural, ethnic, and political, or defined as a complex of fundamental rights owed to all human beings, the issue of human rights has been on the lips of politicians of all stripes, of cultural and political activists, and of Catholic and Protestant clergy, as well as Mayas at the local level who are trying to make sense of the globalized world they are living in.