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The Blood of Guatemala - A History of Race and Nation (Paperback)
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The Blood of Guatemala - A History of Race and Nation (Paperback)
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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.
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