Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Core and periphery in colonial Guatemala / Christopher H. Lutz and W. George Lovell
  • Changes in the nineteenth-century Guatemalan state and its Indian policies / Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
  • Origins of the national question in Guatemala : a hypothesis / Carol A. Smith
  • State power, indigenous communities, and land in nineteenth-century Guatemala, 1820-1920 / David McCreery
  • State and community in nineteenth-century Guatemala : the Momostenango case / Robert M. Carmack
  • Ethnic images and strategies in 1944 / Richard N. Adams
  • The corporate community, Campesino organizations, and agrarian reform : 1950-1954 / Jim Handy
  • Enduring yet ineffable community in the Western periphery of Guatemala / John M. Watanabe.
  • Class position and class consciousness in an Indian community : Totonicapán in the 1970s / Carol A. Smith
  • Changing Indian identity : Guatemala's violent transition to modernity / Arturo Arias
  • Conclusion : history and revolution in Guatemala / Carol A. Smith.