Nelson, Diane M., 1963-

A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xix, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps

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.


English.

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Mayas--Ethnic identity.
Mayas--Civil rights.
Mayas--Politics and government.
Human body--Political aspects--Guatemala.
Human body--Symbolic aspects--Guatemala.
Ladino (Latin American people)--Social conditions.--Guatemala
Mestizaje--Social conditions.--Guatemala
Popular culture--Guatemala.
Sex role--Guatemala.
Violence--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
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Latin America.
Mayas--Identit�e collective.
Corps humain--Aspect politique--Guatemala.


Guatemala--Ethnic relations.
Guatemala--Politics and government.
Guatemala.
Guatemala
Maya.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

F1435.3.E72 / N45 1999eb

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