POLS 3160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Kingsley, Cynthia Enloe, Femininity
13 Oct 2016
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Mayahood through beauty: indian beauty pagents in guatemala. Indian pageants intention is to preserve and reinvigorate traditional forms of cultural expression. Indian queens are elected not so much on the basis of their looks as on the aptitude for representing cultural "authenticity" Indian pageants have become important arenas for the communication of maya consciousness and identity. Spread of maya consciousness and identity among guatemalan indians is a recent phenomenon: can be associated with the growing influence of the maya movement after the violent phase of the civil war in the early. 1980s: the recognition of this movement helped to have some of its objectives granted in the course of the peace process (1986, not a cohesive organization. Some claim that candidates of the folkloristic pageants were among the first to identify. Ethnicity and gender: generally only ladinas participate in beauty pageants, rules for a different, folkloristic order of pageants require that participation is limited to indians.
