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- Book Title
- The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin Ameri
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822324954
ISBN-13
9780822324959
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1621142
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Blood of Guatemala : a History of Race and Nation
Subject
Minority Studies, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / Central America
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Series
Latin America Otherwise Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-045640
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, 'Los Altos.' Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a 'high placee' and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there."--Francisco Goldman, "Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals."-Deborah Levenson, Boston College, "Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries' worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions--political, economic, social, demographic--form an histore totale."-- "Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, 'Los Altos.' Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a 'high place' and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there."--Francisco Goldman "Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, community, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skilfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals."--Deborah Levenson, Boston College "Grandin has amassed an intriguing collection of census reports, minutes of council meetings, letters and photographs. His thesis that present-day pan-Mayan nationalism is not a rejection of the bankrupt nationalism of the State, but the offspring of nineteenth-century liberal positivists is bound to provoke controversy. This scrupulously researched, ingeniously argued book deserves the most serious consideration."--Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2000 >"The title of Greg Grandin's fine and meticulously researched book, The Blood of Guatemala, refers to the inextricable roles that ethnicity, caste and violence have played in that nation's history. This study presents a detailed analysis of the tensions, accomodations and carefully considered mutual alliances that have framed notions of race and power in Guatemala and in Xela. . . . Grandin . . . lay[s] out a complex portrait of indigenous agency and self-conscious subjectivity in the creation of an alternative vision of Guatemalan "nationality"'--Virginia Garrard-Burnett, The Times Higher August 24, 2001 "A timely and impeccably researched addition to the growing body of work that examines the extent to which the reformist government of the mid-twentieth century brought about their own destruction and the subsequent ignition of a violent Civil War. . . . The author uses a solid base of primary and secondary information sources, from photographs to council meeting minutes, to argue his somewhat controversial standpoint on the reasons behind the collapse of the reformist state. The quality of this research/writing means that we should give careful consideration to his proposals."--British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2001 " . . . this is a very complex and elegant book that combines a compelling narrative with meticulous scholarship. It will be of interest to all scholars concerned with the relationships between class, ethnicity, gender, nation and state formation."--Journal of Latin American Studies, February 2002, "Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals."--Deborah Levenson, Boston College, "Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, "Los Altos." Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a "high place" and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there."-Francisco Goldman, "Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, 'Los Altos.' Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a 'high placee' and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there."--Francisco Goldman "Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries' worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions--political, economic, social, demographic--form a histore totale."--John Demos, Yale University "Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals."--Deborah Levenson, Boston College, "Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, 'Los Altos.' Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a 'high placee' and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there."-Francisco Goldman, “Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries’ worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions-political, economic, social, demographic-form a histore totale.�-John Demos, Yale University, “Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals.�-Deborah Levenson, Boston College, "Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries' worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions-political, economic, social, demographic-form a histore totale."-John Demos, Yale University, "Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries' worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions--political, economic, social, demographic--form a histore totale."--John Demos, Yale University
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
972.81004/974152
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Searching for the Living among the Dead 1 Prelude: A World Put Right, 31 March 1840 20 1. The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, and Politics, 1750-1821 25 2. Defending the Pueblo: Popular Protests and Elite Politics, 1786-1826 54 3. A Pestilent Nationalism: The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered 82 4. A House with Two Masters: Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians 99 5. Principales to Patrones, macehuales to Mozos: Land, Labor, and the Commodification of Community 110 6. Regenerating the Race: Race, Class, and the Nationalization of Ethnicity 130 7. Time and Space among the Maya: Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City 159 8. The Blood of Guatemalans: Class Struggle and the Death of K'iche' Nationalism 198 Conclusions: The Limits of Nation, 1954-1999 220 Epilogue: The Living among the Dead 234 Appendix 1 Names and Places 237 Appendix 2 Glossary 241 Notes 243 Works Cited 315 Index 337
Synopsis
A study of the political and cultural formation of one of Guatemala's indigenous communities that explores the nationalization of ethnicity, the preservation of Mayan identity, and the formation of a brutally repressive state., Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades. Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango, Grandin shows how their efforts to maintain authority over the indigenous population and secure political power in relation to non-Indians played a crucial role in the formation of the Guatemalan nation. To explore the close connection between nationalism, state power, ethnic identity, and political violence, Grandin draws on sources as diverse as photographs, public rituals, oral testimony, literature, and a collection of previously untapped documents written during the nineteenth century. He explains how the cultural anxiety brought about by Guatemala's transition to coffee capitalism during this period led Mayan patriarchs to develop understandings of race and nation that were contrary to Ladino notions of assimilation and progress. This alternative national vision, however, could not take hold in a country plagued by class and ethnic divisions. In the years prior to the 1954 coup, class conflict became impossible to contain as the elites violently opposed land claims made by indigenous peasants. This "history of power" reconsiders the way scholars understand the history of Guatemala and will be relevant to those studying nation building and indigenous communities across Latin America.
LC Classification Number
F1465
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