Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transcription of Maya Languages and Personal Names
  • Introduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence
  • Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right
  • Coalitions and the Peace Process
  • In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist
  • Civil War: Enemies Without and Within
  • Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony
  • Interrogating Official History
  • Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest
  • "Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community
  • Indigenous Activism across Generations
  • Conclusions: Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity"
  • Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists.