Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-342) and index.
Introduction: Emergent anthropologies and pluricultural ethnography in two postcolonial nations / John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer -- Culture history in national contexts : ninteenth-century Maya under Mexican and Guatemalan rule / John M. Watanabe -- Linguistic continuities and discontinuities in the Maya area / Victoria R. Bricker -- The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the politics of Bible translation in Mexico : convergence, appropriation, and consequence / Christine A. Kray -- "Everything has begun to change" : appraisals of the Mexican state in Chiapas Maya discourse, 1980-2000 / Gary H. Gossen -- Beyond resistance and protest : the Maya quest for autonomy / June Nash -- Rereading Tzotzil ethnography : recent scholarship from Chiapas, Mexico / Jan Rus -- Angering the ancestors : transationalism and economic transformation of Maya communities in western Guatemala / Victor Montejo -- The janus face of globalization : economic production and cultural reproduction in highland Guatemala / Edward F. Fischer -- Continuities, imputed and inferred / Richard G. Fox