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9780520212855

A Finger in the Wound

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520212855

  • ISBN10:

    0520212851

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This book explores how national, ethnic, and gender identifications in Guatemala are transformed through processes of articulation in the world historic moment of the Columbus Quincenntennial.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations
xvii
Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala
1(40)
Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation
41(33)
State Fetishism and the Pinata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture
74(54)
Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992
128(42)
Gendering the Ethnic-National Question: Rigoberta Menchu Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity
170(36)
Bodies That Splatter: Gender, ``Race,'' and the Discourses of Mestizaje
206(39)
Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala
245(38)
A Transnational Frame-Up: ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law
283(65)
Global Biopolitical Economy: Prosthetics and Blood Politics
348(25)
Appendix: Selected Rigoberta Menchu Jokes 373(6)
Glossary 379(4)
Works Cited 383(24)
Index 407

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