A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 427 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520920606
- 0520920600
- 0585326770
- 9780585326771
- 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
- Guatemala -- Ethnic relations
- Guatemala -- Politics and government
- 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
- Guatemala
- Geschichte
- Maya
- Menschenrecht
- Guatemala
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
- Latin America
- Mayas -- Identit�e collective
- Corps humain -- Aspect politique -- Guatemala
- Maya
- 305.897/4152 21
- F1435.3.E72 N45 1999eb
- LB 48630
- LB 51630
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-406) and index.
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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