Table of Contents: A finger in the wound :

Main Author:	Nelson, Diane M., 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Subjects:	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 Guatemala > Ethnic relations. Guatemala > Politics and government.
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Table of Contents:

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.