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The blood of Guatemala : a history of race and nation /

"Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grandin, Greg, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Latin America otherwise.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Searching for the living among the dead
  • Prelude: A world put right, 31 March 1840
  • The greatest Indian city in the world: caste, gender, and politics, 1750-1821
  • Defending the pueblo: popular protests and elite politics, 1786-1826
  • A pestilent nationalism: the 1837 Cholera Epidemic reconsidered
  • A house with two masters: Carrera and the restored republic of Indians
  • Principales to patrones, Macehuales to Mozos: land, labor, and the commodification of community
  • Regenerating the race: race, class, and the natiionalization of ethnicity
  • Time and space among the Maya: Mayan modernism and the transformation of the city
  • The Blood of Guatemalans: class struggle and the death of Kiche nationalism
  • Conclusions: the limits of nation, 1954-1999
  • Epilogue: The living among the dead.