Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as" a finger in the wound." Diane
Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study …

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 …

Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a
Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was" the story of all poor Guatemalans." By …

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad
roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and …

" There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against
terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on …

" Manz captures one of the most tragic periods of Guatemalan history with truly extraordinary
insight, intimacy and brilliance. Myrna Mack, her friend and colleague, was murdered by the …

This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on
intensive fieldwork in the department of El Quiche, Guatemala, during 1988-1990. It …

Although spoken by a relatively large population, Mayan languages show signs of language
shift and loss because the children in some of the speech communities are no longer …

Mining is one of the most controversial activities in contemporary Guatemala. The anti‐
mining movement was studied during five months of participant and qualitative research …

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in
the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that …