{"product_id":"a-finger-in-the-wound-9780520212855","title":"A Finger in the Wound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala \u003cbr\u003e 2. Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation \u003cbr\u003e 3. State Fetishism and the Piñata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture \u003cbr\u003e 4. Hostile Markings Taken for Identity:Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992 \u003cbr\u003e 5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question:Rigoberta Menchú Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity \u003cbr\u003e 6. Bodies That Splatter: Gender, “Race,” and the Discourses of Mestizaje \u003cbr\u003e 7. Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State:Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala \u003cbr\u003e 8. A Transnational Frame-Up:ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law \u003cbr\u003e 9. Global Biopolitical Economy: Prosthetics and Blood Politics \u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Selected Rigoberta Menchú Jokes \u003cbr\u003e Glossary \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402806141271,"sku":"9780520212855","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520212855.jpg?v=1730481563","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-finger-in-the-wound-9780520212855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}