Guatemalan Indians And The State
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Guatemalan Indians And The State
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Author : Carol A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Guatemalan Indians And The State written by Carol A. Smith and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with History categories.
Violence in Central America, especially when directed against Indian populations, is not a new phenomenon. Yet few studies of the region have focused specifi cally on the relationship between Indians and the state, a relationship that may hold the key to understanding these conflicts. In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala's distinctive history and social order. In chapters by such respected scholars as Robert Cormack, Ralph Lee Woodward, Christopher Lutz, Richard Adams, and Arturo Arias, the history of Indian activism in Guatemala unfolds. The authors reveal that the insistence of Guatemalan Indians on maintaining their distinctive cultural practices and traditions in the face of state attempts to eradicate them appears to have fostered the development of an increasingly oppressive state. This historical insight into the forces that shaped modern Guatemala provides a context for understanding the extraordinary level of violence that enveloped the Indians of the western highlands in the 1980s, the continued massive assault on traditional religious and secular culture, the movement from a militarized state to a militarized civil society, and the major transformations taking place in Guatemala's traditional export-oriented economy. In this sense, Guatemalan Indians and the State, 1540 to 1988 provides a revisionist social history of Guatemala.
The Blood Of Guatemala
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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-03-15
The Blood Of Guatemala written by Greg Grandin and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
Guatemalan Sociology
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Author : Miguel Angel Asturias
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Guatemalan Sociology written by Miguel Angel Asturias and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Guatemala categories.
Ladinos With Ladinos Indians With Indians
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Author : René Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-25
Ladinos With Ladinos Indians With Indians written by René Reeves and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with History categories.
In the late 1830s an uprising of mestizos and Maya destroyed Guatemala's Liberal government for imposing reforms aimed at expanding the state, assimilating indigenous peoples, and encouraging commercial agriculture. Liberal partisans were unable to retake the state until 1871, but after they did they successfully implemented their earlier reform agenda. In contrast to the late 1830s, they met only sporadic resistance. Reeves confronts this paradox of Guatemala's nineteenth century by focusing on the rural folk of the western highlands. He links the area of study to the national level in an explicitly comparative enterprise, unlike most investigations of Mesoamerican communities. He finds that changes in land, labor, and ethnic politics from the 1840s to the 1870s left popular sectors unwilling or unable to mount a repeat of the earlier anti-Liberal mobilization. Because of these changes, the Liberals of the 1870s and beyond consolidated their hold on power more successfully than their counterparts of the 1830s. Ultimately, Reeves shows that community politics and regional ethnic tensions were the crucible of nation-state formation in nineteenth-century Guatemala.
Guatemala And The States Of Central America
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Author : Charles William Domville-Fife
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Guatemala And The States Of Central America written by Charles William Domville-Fife and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with History categories.
Nation States And Indians In Latin America
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Author : Greg Urban
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Nation States And Indians In Latin America written by Greg Urban and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
Twelve essays pose a challenge to classical anthropological theory and methodology in which Indian cultures have been analyzed in isolation, without regard for nation-state context. Empirically focused, they deal with such issues as how the Guatemalan tourist industry appropriates indigenous clothing to create a national image and how highland Indian music has adapted to Peruvian state interventions since the colonial period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Harvest Of Violence
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Author : Robert M. Carmack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Harvest Of Violence written by Robert M. Carmack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Guatemala categories.
"This important and disturbing volume provides ten case histories of recent institutionalized violence and discrimination against the Maya-speaking peoples of Guatemala. The authors... reconstruct events by interpreting oral history, comparing contemporary situations with their knowledge of the recent past, and applying their understanding of complex cultural, economic, and political factors. ...This well-integrated, well-produced book is an important first step in the documentation of one of the major ethnic tragedies of modern times". -- Ethnohistory. "A chilling exposure of a brutal repression that has somehow escaped the headlines". -- Kirkus Reviews.
Indigenous Movements And Their Critics
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Author : Kay B. Warren
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-27
Indigenous Movements And Their Critics written by Kay B. Warren and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-27 with History categories.
In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics. The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class.
Chinautla A Guatemalan Indian Community
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Author : Ruben E. Reina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Chinautla A Guatemalan Indian Community written by Ruben E. Reina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with History categories.
The Symbolism Of Subordination
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Author : Kay B. Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Symbolism Of Subordination written by Kay B. Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.