A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Mayas > Ethnic identity.
Mayas > Civil rights.
Mayas > Politics and government.
Human body > Political aspects > Guatemala.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Guatemala.
Ladino (Latin American people) > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Mestizaje > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Popular culture > Guatemala.
Sex role > Guatemala.
Violence > Guatemala.
Mayas > Identité ethnique.
Mayas > Droits.
Corps humain > Aspect politique > Guatemala.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > Guatemala.
Ladinos > Guatemala > Conditions sociales.
Culture populaire > Guatemala.
Rôle selon le sexe > Guatemala.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Ethnic relations
Human body > Political aspects
Human body > Symbolic aspects
Ladino (Latin American people) > Social conditions
Mayas > Civil rights
Mayas > Ethnic identity
Mayas > Politics and government
Politics and government
Popular culture
Sex role
Violence
Geschichte
Maya
Menschenrecht
Mayas > Identité collective.
Guatemala > Ethnic relations.
Guatemala > Politics and government.
Guatemala > Politique et gouvernement.
Guatemala
Maya.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: body politics and quincentennial Guatemala
  • Gringa positioning, vulnerable bodies, and fluidarity: a partial relation
  • State fetishism and the pinata effect: catastrophe and the magic of culture
  • Hostile markings taken for identity: questions of ambivalence and authority in a graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992
  • Gendering the ethnic-national question: Rigoberta Menchu jokes and the out-skirts of fashioning identity
  • Bodies that splatter: gender, "race," and the discourses of Mestizaje
  • Maya-hackers and the cyberspatialized nation-state: modernity, ethnostalgia, and a lizard queen in Guatemala
  • A transnational frame-up: ILO Convention 169, identity, territory, and the law.

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