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A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala
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- Creator
- Diane M. Nelson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xix, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520212848, 0520212843, 9780520212855, 0520212851
- OCLC
- ocm39605689
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-406) and index.
- Introduction: Body politics and quincentennial Guatemala -- Gringa positioning, vulnerable bodies, and fluidarity: a partial relation -- State fetishism and the piñata 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 Menchú 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 -- Global biopolitical economy: prosthetics and blood politics -- Appendix: Selected Rigoberta Menchú jokes
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) -- Guatemala -- Social conditions.
- Mestizaje -- Guatemala -- Social conditions.
- Popular culture -- Guatemala.
- Sex role -- Guatemala.
- Violence -- Guatemala.
- Guatemala -- Ethnic relations.
- Guatemala -- Politics and government.