The Blood of Guatemala : A History of Race and Nation /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grandin, Greg, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indiens > Relations avec l'Etat > Guatemala.
Indiens > Guatemala > Histoire.
Quiche (Indiens) > Politique et gouvernement.
Mayas > Guatemala > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Mayas > Guatemala > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Politieke cultuur.
Elites.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Maya's.
Race relations.
Quiche Indians > Politics and government.
Politics and government
Mayas > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Mayas > Guatemala > Conditions sociales.
Mayas > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Guatemala > Politique et gouvernement > Histoire.
Guatemala > Relations interethniques > 20e siecle.
Guatemala > Relations interethniques > 19e siecle.
Guatemala
Guatemala.
Guatemala > Politique et gouvernement.
Guatemala > Race relations.
Guatemala > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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