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Accepted Paper:
Maya Law and Community Video: Negotiating visual intertextuality in Quiché, Guatemala.
Carlos Flores
(Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, México)
This paper reflects on indigenous video, legal pluralism, intertextuality and collaborative anthropology. It presents the results of a shared anthropological project with indigenous mayors in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala.
Paper long abstract:
This paper reflects on indigenous video, legal pluralism, intertextuality and collaborative anthropology. It presents the results of a shared anthropological project with indigenous mayors in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala. The project arose following the discovery of an archive of videos documenting dispute procedures within "Mayan law" which was filmed by indigenous actors themselves; this later formed the basis of two documentaries elaborated with the input of the anthropologist. The material presented here refers to the possibilities and difficulties involved in the collaborative project which extended from the negotiation in the field of community and academic interests to the production of hybrid visual texts and their varied reception by different audiences.