Abstract

LUNA, Ursula; MIJANGOS NOH, Juan Carlos; PORTOLEZ GORRIZ, Ángel  and  IBANEZ-ETXEBERRIA, Álex. Heritage Communities as Articulators and Custodians of the Mayan Culture: The Canicab’ Community Center Uj-Ja’ Síijo’ob (Yucatan, Mexico). Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2023, vol.61, pp.257-280.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/61.002x4856001sm9.

In recent decades, heritage communities have become conservators and transmitters of assets that have been in danger of disappearing in recent decades, in which collective actions outside official institutions have managed to preserve their heritage in a helpless situation. This paper shows the development and the activities of the Uj-ja’ Síijo’ob Community Center in Canicab, Yucatán, since the opening in 2012 until nowadays. This project arises together with a group of volunteers, pretending to be a space for literacy for children and adults in the first instance, to end up being a space for dialogue open to the entire community, in which heritage and education are the two key axes. So it presents the value of heritage communities in preserving and transmitting the Mayan cultural heritage in Mexico.

Keywords : Heritage communities; Heritage Education; Mayan; knowledges; Yucatan.

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