“A text like I
Rigoberta Menchú, similarly forces us to recognize that the participation
of indigenous groups in the armed struggle in Guatemala was directed in part
against, or to limit, their proletarianization and acculturation/transculturation.
As Menchú herself has explained numerous occasions, this is not exactly the
same thing as a rejection of modernity or science and technology, s it is
sometimes made out to be by her critics; rather, it is an insistence that
modernity come on terms that are acceptable to indigenous groups. Ideologically,
therefore, their struggle required an affirmation of indigenous “identity”:
values, languages, customs, dress, and territoriality (especially crucial in
this regard is the defense of communal land rights)."
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