Description
Book SynopsisMany Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as 'a finger in the wound'. This book explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath. It investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan - and Guatemalan - identity.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala
2. Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation
3. State Fetishism and the Piñata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture
4. Hostile Markings Taken for Identity:Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992
5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question:Rigoberta Menchú Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity
6. Bodies That Splatter: Gender, “Race,” and the Discourses of Mestizaje
7. Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State:Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala
8. A Transnational Frame-Up:ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law
9. Global Biopolitical Economy: Prosthetics and Blood Politics
Appendix. Selected Rigoberta Menchú Jokes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
