To End with All These Evils: Ethnic Transformation and Community Mobilization in Guatemala's Western Highlands, 1954-1980

To End with All These Evils: Ethnic Transformation and Community Mobilization in Guatemala's Western Highlands, 1954-1980

Grandin presents an overview of Mayan identity as it has been described by ethnologists and discusses how social changes contributed to an expansion of this identity. He focuses on how this expansion manifested itself in the formation, organization and strategies of the Committee of Peasant Unity, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Latin American perspectives 1997-03, Vol.24 (2), p.7-34
1. Verfasser: Grandin, Greg
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Arias
Central America
CLASS OF PEOPLE WORKING THE SOIL
Communities
Community
Cultural identity
Economic change
Ethnic identity
Ethnicity
ETHNICITY AND ETHNIC GROUPS
Ethnology
Government, Resistance to
Group identity
Guatemala
Highlands
History
History (1954-80)
IDENTITY
Latin America
Mayan culture
Mayas
Minority & ethnic groups
Mobilization
Native Americans
Native North Americans
Peasant class
Peasants
Plantations
Political identity
Political movements
Race relations
Religion
Social change
Social movements
SOCIETY AS A WHOLE
Transition
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Zusammenfassung:Grandin presents an overview of Mayan identity as it has been described by ethnologists and discusses how social changes contributed to an expansion of this identity. He focuses on how this expansion manifested itself in the formation, organization and strategies of the Committee of Peasant Unity, a Mayan-formed and Mayan-led peasant federation at the forefront of the popular movement of the late 1970s and 1980s.
ISSN:0094-582X
1552-678X
DOI:10.1177/0094582X9702400202