Without nation, without community: The growth of Maya nationalism among Ch'orti's of Eastern Guatemala

Journal of Anthropological Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 325-349

  Metz, Brent ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003247735     PISSN: 00917710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/jar.54.3.3630651     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Adams, R.N., 1969, Nationalization. Pp. 469-89 in Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 6 (ed. by M. Nash). Austin: University of Texas Press.
2. Adams, R.N., 1970, Crucifixion by Power. Austin: University of Texas Press.
3. Adams, R.N., 1990, Ethnic Images and Strategies in 1944. Pp. 141-62 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
4. Adams, R.N., 1996, Un Siglo de Geografía Étnica Guatemala, 1893-1994. Revista USAC 2:7-65. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
5. Anderson, B., 1991, Imagined Communities. New York: Verso.
6. AGCA (Archivo General de Centroamérica), [1802], "Estado que manifiesta las cantidades que al ramo de tributos. . . ." Exped 4858, Ramo A3-16, Leg 243. Guatemala City.
7. AGCA (Archivo General de Centroamérica), [1810], "El pbro. Baltasar Escobar, Parroco de Santiago Jocotán. . . ." Exped 49630, Ramo A1-11, Leg 5859. Guatemala City.
8. AGCA (Archivo General de Centroamérica), [1812], "Diligencias instruidas sobre el contagio. . . ." Exped 7876, Ramo A1.4, Leg 380. Guatemala City.
9. Arias, A., 1990, Changing Indian Identity: Guatemala's Violent Transition to Modernity. Pp. 230-57 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
10. Biesanz, R., K.Z. Biesanz, and M.H. Biesanz, 1982, The Costa Ricans. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.
11. Briggs, C.L., 1997, The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the "Invention of Tradition." Cultural Anthropology 11:435-69.
12. Brintnall, D., 1979, Revolt against the Dead: The Modernization of a Maya Community in the Highlands of Guatemala. New York: Gordon and Breach.
13. Brysk, A., 1996, Turning Weakness into Strength: The Internationalization of Indian Rights. Latin American Perspectives 23(2):38-57.
14. Burnett, V.G., 1988, Protestantism in Rural Guatemala, 1872-1954. Latin American Research Review 23:127-43.
15. Carlson, R.S., 1997, The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town. Austin: University of Texas Press.
16. Carmack, R., ed., 1988, Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
17. Carmack, R., 1995, Rebels of Highland Guatemala: The Quiche-Mayas of Momostenango. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
18. CERIGUA, 1997, More Guatemalans Reading - ASIES. Cerigua Weekly Briefs (18):4. Guatemala City.
19. Cortés y Larraz, P., 1958[1768-1770], Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, vol. 1. Biblioteca "Goathemala" de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, vol. 20. Guatemala City.
20. Cortés y Larraz, P., 1958[1768-1770], Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, vol. 1. Biblioteca "Goathemala" de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, vol. 20. Guatemala City.
21. Diener, P., 1978, The Tears of St. Anthony: Ritual and Revolution in Eastern Guatemala. Latin American Perspectives 5(3):92-116.
22. Eber, C., 1995, Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow. Austin: University of Texas Press.
23. Falla, R., 1978, Quiché Rebelde. Guatemala City: Editorial Universitaria de Guatemala.
24. Farriss, N.M., 1984, Maya Society under Colonial Rule. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
25. Feldman, L.H., 1982, Colonial Manuscripts of Chiquimula, El Progreso, and Zacapa Departments, Guatemala. Columbia, Mo.: Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri.
26. Feldman, L.H., 1983, Un Reconocimiento de los Recursos de Centroamerica en Manuscritos Chortí. Pp. 144-94 in Introducción a la Arqueología de Copán, Honduras. Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Proyecto Arqueológico Copán, Secretaria de Estado en el Despacho de Cultura y Turismo.
27. Feldman, L., 1985, A Tumpline Economy. Culver City, Calif.: Labyrinthos Press.
28. Fischer, E.F., 1996, Induced Culture Change as a Strategy for Socioeconomic Development: The Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala. Pp. 51-73 in Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (ed. by E.F. Fischer and R.M. Brown). Austin: University of Texas Press.
29. Fischer, E.F., and R.M. Brown, eds., 1996, Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press.
30. Garita, L., 1989, The Bureaucratization of the Costa Rican State. Pp. 137-40 in The Costa Rica Reader (ed. by M. Edelman and J. Kenen). New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
31. Gellner, E., 1983, Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
32. Girard, R., 1949, Los Chortís ante el Problema Maya. 5 vols. Mexico City: Antigua Librería Robredo.
33. Gossen, G., 1996, Maya Zapatistas Move to the Ancient Future. American Anthropologist 98(3):528-38.
34. Govindaraj, R., G. Chellaraj, and C.J.L. Murray, 1997, Health Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean. Social Science and Medicine 44(2):157-69.
35. Green, L., 1994, Fear As a Way of Life. Cultural Anthropology 9(2):227-56.
36. Grieb, K.J., 1979, Guatemalan Caudillo: The Regime of Jorge Ubico. Athens: Ohio University Press.
37. Hale, C.R., 1996, Mestizaje, Hybridity and the Cultural Politics of Difference in Post-Revolutionary Central America. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 2(1):34-61.
38. Handy, J., 1984, Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. Boston: South End Press.
39. Handy, J., 1990, The Corporate Community, Campesino Organizations, and Agrarian Reform: 1950-1954. Pp. 163-82 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
40. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 1996, X Censo Nacional de Población y V de Habitación. Guatemala City.
41. Jonas, S., 1991, The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
42. Joseph, G.M., and D. Nugent, eds., 1994a, Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
43. Joseph, G.M., and D. Nugent, 1994b, Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico. Pp. 3-23 in Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (ed. by G.M. Joseph and D. Nugent). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
44. Keesing, R.M., 1987, Anthropology as Interpretive Quest. Current Anthropology 28(2):161-76.
45. Kleymeyer, C.D., ed., 1994, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner.
46. La Nación, 1997, Despiden 1997 con Ambiente de Paz. San José, Costa Rica. Internet: http://www.nacion.co.cr/diciembre/31/guatemala.htm1#2.
47. López García, J., 1993, Comidas de Mayas Chortís y Ladinos del Oriente de Guatemala. Ph.D. diss., Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
48. López García, J., and B. Metz, n.d., Siervos del Tiempo, Dueños del Maíz: Etnografía y Cambio Social entre los Mayas Chortís del Oriente de Guatemala. Unpub. MS in author's possession.
49. Lutz, C.H., 1988, Guatemala's Non-Spanish and Non-Indian Population: Its Spread and Demographic Evolution, 1700-1821. Paper presented at the Guatemalan History and Development Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
50. Lutz, C.H., and W.G. Lovell, 1990, Core and Periphery in Colonial Guatemala. Pp. 35-51 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
51. Metz, B.E., 1995, Experiencing Conquest: The Political and Economic Roots and Cultural Expression of Maya-Ch'orti' Ethos. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Albany.
52. Nash, J., 1973, Death as a Way of Life: The Increasing Resort to Homicide in a Maya Indian Community. Pp. 346-54 in To See Ourselves as Others See Us: Anthropology of Modern Social Issues (ed. by T. Weaver). Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foreman and Co.
53. Padilla, L.A., 1996, Síntesis Histórica del Proceso de Paz. Revista USAC (1):39-51. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
54. Palma, D., 1989, The State and Social Co-optation in Costa Rica. Pp. 132-37 in The Costa Rica Reader (ed. by M. Edelman and J. Kenen). New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
55. Parroquia de Santiago Jocotán, 1978, Documentos Históricos: Recopilación de Documentos Históricos de la Parroquia de Jocotán en la Biblioteca Nacional y Archivo Parroquial. Unpub. collection of copies of documents held at the Parroquia de Santiago Jocotán, Jocotán, Guatemala.
56. Quezada Toruño, R., 1996, El Desafío de la Paz. Revista USAC (1):99-105. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
57. Raxche', 1996, Maya Culture and the Politics of Development. Pp. 19-50 in Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (ed. by E.F. Fischer and R.M. Brown). Austin: University of Texas Press.
58. Rose, S.D., and S. Brower, 1990, The Export of Fundamentalist Americanism: U.S. Evangelical Education in Guatemala. Latin American Perspectives 67(17):42-56.
59. Scott, J., 1994, Forward. Pp. vii-xii in Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (ed. by G.M. Joseph and D. Nugent). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
60. Siglo Veintiuno, 1997, Lizardo Sosa López: La Economía Recibe la Paz en Situación Difícil. Guatemala City. Internet: http://www.sigloxxi.com/Paz/Suplemento/Tema9b.html.
61. Smith, C.A., ed., 1990a, Conclusion: History and Revolution in Guatemala. Pp. 258-85 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
62. Smith, C.A., ed., 1990b, Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988. Austin: University of Texas Press.
63. Smith, C.A., 1990c, Introduction: Social Relations in Guatemala over Time and Space. Pp. 1-30 in Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540-1988 (ed. by C.A. Smith). Austin: University of Texas Press.
64. Stephens, J.L., 1969[1841], Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, vol. 1. New York: Dover.
65. Stoll, D., 1993, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala. New York: Columbia University Press.
66. Terga, R., 1980, El Valle Bañado por el Río de Plata. Guatemala Indígena 15(1-2):1-100. Guatemala City.
67. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997, Vital Statistics Report Shows Significant Gains in Health. Press Release, 11 Sept. Internet: http://www.hhs.gov/ news/pres/970911a.html.
68. van Oss, A.C., 1986, Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524-1821. New York: Cambridge University Press.
69. Warren, K.B., 1989, The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town. Austin: University of Texas Press.
70. Warren, K.B., 1992, Transforming Memories and Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians. Pp. 189-219 in Americas: New Interpretive Essays (ed. by A. Stepan). New York: Oxford University Press.
71. Warren, K.B., 1993, Interpreting la Violencia in Guatemala: Shapes of Mayan Silence and Resistance. Pp. 25-56 in The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Oppression in Divided Nations (ed. by K.B. Warren). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
72. Wasserstrom, R., 1976, Revolution in Guatemala: Peasants and Politics under the Arbenz Government. Comparative Studies of Society and History 18:443-78.
73. Watanabe, J.M., 1992, Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World. Austin: University of Texas Press.
74. Watanabe, J.M., 1995, Unimagining the Maya: Anthropologists, Others, and the Inescapable Hubris of Authorship. Bulletin of Latin American Research 14:25-46.
75. Wilson, R., 1995, Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
76. Wisdom, C., 1940, The Chorti Indians of Guatemala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
77. Wisdom, C., 1961, Los Chortís de Guatemala. Guatemala City: Editorial del Ministerio de Educación Pública.
78. Woodward, R.L., 1993, Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-71. Athens: University of Georgia Press.