Title A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	305.897 N425F	Check Shelf

Description	xix, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-406) and index.
Contents	1. Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala -- 2. Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation -- 3. State Fetishism and the Pinata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture -- 4. Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992 -- 5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question: Rigoberta Menchu Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity -- 6. Bodies That Splatter: Gender, "Race," and the Discourses of Mestizaje -- 7. Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala -- 8. A Transnational Frame-Up: ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law.
Subject	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.
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Human body -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01730088
	Human body -- Symbolic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01730109
	Ladino (Latin American people) -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00990671
	Mayas -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst01012783
	Mayas -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst01012794
	Mayas -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01012822
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
	Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
	Guatemala. (OCoLC)fst01205154
	Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
	Maya (DE-588)4038108-0
	Menschenrecht (DE-588)4074725-6
	Guatemala (DE-588)4022428-4
	Maya.
ISBN	0520212843 (alk. paper)
	9780520212848 (alk. paper)
	0520212851 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9780520212855 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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