Glendy Agustin es una investigadora, activista y periodista comunitaria maya mam radicada en Comitancillo (San Marcos), en el occidente de Guatemala. Ha realizado múltiples investigaciones centradas en las tradiciones, la medicina, la espiritualidad, la vestimenta y la gastronomía de su comunidad maya mam. Asimismo, ha participado como activista en proyectos de rescate de la memoria...

Over thirty Mayan languages are spoken in Mesoamerica and many of these exhibit considerable internal diversity. In fact, dialectal differences can be so pronounced that mutual intelligibility is affected among speakers of the same language. This talk describes and reflects on the benefits of using a community-based approach for understanding dialectal variation, with a focus...