Continuity and Change in a Guatemalan Indian Community: San Cristóbal-Verapaz, 1870–1940
1996; Duke University Press; Volume: 76; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00182168-76.2.227
ISSN1527-1900
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Society in Latin America
ResumoI N recent years, historians of Guatemala have begun to formulate a new agenda for study of power relationships between government, socioeconomic elites, and indigenous majority in this central American state. Thus a collection of essays by leading U.S. experts on Guatemalan history, published in 1992 and covering period from conquest to 198os, attempts nothing less than to constitute first real social history of Guatemala.' According to volume's editor, Carol Smith, collection differs from earlier studies, which essentially took a sociological approach to Indian-state relations in country, in the way in which it brings a cultural perspective to questions of power (and vice versa) and by doing so helps dispel many of myths concerning unchanging nature of Guatemalan Indian communities and their relation to state.2
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