The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and NationDuke University Press, 2000 M03 15 - 343 páginas Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades. Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango, Grandin shows how their efforts to maintain authority over the indigenous population and secure political power in relation to non-Indians played a crucial role in the formation of the Guatemalan nation. To explore the close connection between nationalism, state power, ethnic identity, and political violence, Grandin draws on sources as diverse as photographs, public rituals, oral testimony, literature, and a collection of previously untapped documents written during the nineteenth century. He explains how the cultural anxiety brought about by Guatemala’s transition to coffee capitalism during this period led Mayan patriarchs to develop understandings of race and nation that were contrary to Ladino notions of assimilation and progress. This alternative national vision, however, could not take hold in a country plagued by class and ethnic divisions. In the years prior to the 1954 coup, class conflict became impossible to contain as the elites violently opposed land claims made by indigenous peasants. This “history of power” reconsiders the way scholars understand the history of Guatemala and will be relevant to those studying nation building and indigenous communities across Latin America. |
Contenido
The Greatest Indian City in the World Caste Gender and Politics 17501821 | 25 |
Defending the Pueblo Popular Protests and Elite Politics 17861826 | 54 |
A Pestilent Nationalism The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered | 82 |
A House with Two Masters Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians | 99 |
Principles to Patrones Macehmlcs to Mozos Land and Labor and the Commodification of Community | 110 |
Regenerating the Race Race class and the Nationalization of Ethnicity | 130 |
Time and Space among the Maya Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City | 159 |
The Blood of Guatemalans Class Struggle and the Death of Kiche Nationalism | 198 |
The Limits of Nation 19541999 | 220 |
Living among the Dead | 234 |
Names and places | 237 |
Glossary | 241 |
NOTES | 243 |
WORKS CITED | 315 |
337 | |
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Términos y frases comunes
Actas AGCA agrarian alcalde alliances Altenses Altos Arbenz artisans Barrios caballerías cabildo caja campesinos capital Carrera Central America chap cholera city's coffee cofradías colonial corregidor Coyoy Creoles cuerdas cultural David McCreery economic Editorial ejidos El Adelanto elites emerged Estado Estudios ethnic example forest gender gobernador González Grandin Guate Guatemala City highland Hispanic History Ibid identity ideology increasingly Indians Indígenas indigenista indigenous indigenous authorities indigenous communities indios Invención criolla jefe político José María José María Paz K'iche K'iche's labor Ladino Latin America liberal Libro López macehuales Manuel Maya Mayan McCreery Mestizo Mexico MFNLA municipal municipal land Municipalidad nango nineteenth century peasant pesos plaza political popular population principales production pueblo Quetzalte Quetzalteco K'iche's Quetzaltenango Quiché race Rafael Carrera reform regidores regional Reina relations Revolution social Sociedad El Adelanto society Spaniards Spanish struggle subsistence tion Tipografía Tipografía Nacional tomo Totonicapán towns University Press urban women workers
Referencias a este libro
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War Greg Grandin Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Nancy P. Appelbaum Vista previa limitada - 2003 |