After the Coup

by Smith, Timothy J.; Adams, Abigail E.

• ISBN13: 9780252077845
• ISBN10: 0252077849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the Liberal Reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970s and 1980s. Scholars and researchers who have worked in Guatemala from the 1940s to the present highlight the voices of individuals with whom they have lived and worked, offering an unmatched understanding of how the events preceding and following the coup played out on the ground.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Smith is an assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University. Abigail E. Adams is a professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Reflecting upon the Historical Impact of the Coup	p. 1
Antonio Goubaud Carrera: Between the Contradictions of the Generación de 1920 and U.S. Anthropology	p. 17
Recovering the Truth of the 1954 Coup: Restoring Peace with Justice	p. 49
A Democracy Born in Violence: Maya Perceptions of the 1944 Patzicía Massacre and the 1954 Coup	p. 73
The Politics of Land, Identity, and Silencing: A Case Study from El Oriente of Guatemala, 1944-54	p. 99
The Path Back to Literacy: Maya Education through War and Beyond	p. 115
Democracy Delayed: The Evolution of Ethnicity in Guatemala Society, 1944-96	p. 134
Epilogue: The October Revolution and the Peace Accords	p. 151
List of Contributors	p. 155
Index	p. 159
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