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.