This dissertation is a regional study of community, indigenous politics, and state formation in nineteenth-century Guatemala. Drawing on primary source material and ethnographic accounts concerning Q'anjob'alan-speaking Maya peoples in the northern Huehuetenango region during the period 1800-1871, it charts a series of transformations and struggles over the meaning of community, nation, and indigenous identity as these were contested by local and national actors in a specific place and time. Taking a broad anthropological approach to Maya political action and state formation, it examines a diverse array of phenomena on a variety of temporal and spatial scales, including ritual practices, ethnic and racial classification, law, office-holding, alcohol use, and land tenure. Based on this examination, new anthropological, historiographic, and theoretical insights are reached into the nature of ethnic relations, Maya community organization, state formation, and indigenous politics in Guatemala over time / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25095 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Contributors | Schwartzkopf, Stacey (Author), Hill, Robert M., II (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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