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Guatemala --- Indians of Central America --- Ladino (Latin American people) --- Social conflict --- Sociale conflicten --- economie. --- geschiedenis. --- Government relations. --- History. --- Guatemala. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Race relations.

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Mayas --- Body, Human --- Ladino (Latin American people) --- Mestizaje --- Popular culture --- Sex role --- Violence --- Ethnic identity --- Civil rights --- Politics and government --- Political aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- Social conditions --- Guatemala --- Ethnic relations --- Mayas - Ethnic identity --- Mayas - Civil rights --- Mayas - Politics and government --- Body, Human - Political aspects - Guatemala --- Body, Human - Symbolic aspects - Guatemala --- Ladino (Latin American people) - Guatemala - Social conditions --- Mestizaje - Guatemala - Social conditions --- Popular culture - Guatemala. --- Sex role - Guatemala --- Violence - Guatemala --- Guatemala - Ethnic relations --- Guatemala - Politics and government

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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 of the civil war and its aftermath. Why use a body metaphor? What body is wounded, and how does it react to apparent further torture? If this is the condition of the body politic, how do human bodies relate to it-those literally wounded in thirty-five years of war and those locked in the equivocal embrace of sexual conquest, domestic labor, mestizaje, and social change movements?Supported by three and a half years of fieldwork since 1985, Nelson addresses these questions-along with the jokes, ambivalences, and structures of desire that surround them-in both concrete and theoretical terms. She explores the relations among Mayan cultural rights activists, ladino (nonindigenous) Guatemalans, the state as a site of struggle, and transnational forces including Nobel Peace Prizes, UN Conventions, neo-liberal economics, global TV, and gringo anthropologists. Along with indigenous claims and their effect on current attempts at reconstituting civilian authority after decades of military rule, Nelson investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan-and Guatemalan-identity. Her work draws from political economy, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, and has special relevance to ongoing discussions of power, hegemony, and the production of subject positions, as well as gender issues and histories of violence as they relate to postcolonial nation-state formation.

Mayas --- Violence --- Human body --- Ladino (Latin American people) --- Mestizaje --- Popular culture --- Sex role --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Ladinos (Latin American people) --- Ethnology --- Mestizos --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Mestizo culture --- Mestizo-ization --- Miscegenation --- Ethnic identity --- Civil rights --- Politics and government --- Political aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- Social conditions --- Guatemala --- Ethnic relations. --- Politics and government. --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Violence. --- Popular culture. --- Sex role.