ABOUT THIS BOOK

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan languages, places current anthropological analyses in relation to Mayan political activism and key Mayan intellectuals’ research and criticism. Illustrating specifically how Mayas in this post-war period conceive of their social and political place in Guatemala, Mayas working in factories, fields, and markets, and participating in local, community-level politics provide critiques of the government, the Maya movement, and the general state of insecurity and social and political violence that they continue to face on a daily basis. Their critical assessments and efforts to improve political, social, and economic conditions illustrate their resiliency and positive, nonviolent solutions to Guatemala’s ongoing problems that deserve serious consideration by Guatemalan and US policy makers, international non-government organizations, peace activists, and even academics studying politics, social agency, and the survival of indigenous people.

CONTRIBUTORS

Abigail E. Adams / José Oscar Barrera Nuñez / Peter Benson / Barbara Bocek / Jennifer L. Burrell / Robert M. Carmack / Monica DeHart / Edward F. Fischer / Liliana Goldín / Walter E. Little / Judith M. Maxwell / J. Jailey Philpot-Munson / Brenda Rosenbaum / Timothy J. Smith / David Stoll

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Walter E. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Albany, SUNY.

Timothy J. Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Appalachian State University.

REVIEWS

“This volume conveys the whole range of experiences and complexities—a must read for students and especially for researchers heading to work in Guatemala.”

—Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

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“Based on significant and sound research, cogently argued. The variety of topics and regions covered by these essays offers both a broad and in-depth perspective on post-war Guatemala.”

—David Carey Jr., University of Southern Maine

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Illustrations	000
Introduction: Revisiting Harvest of Violence in Postwar Guatemala
	Walter E. Little	000
1. Democracy Is Dissent: Political Confrontations and Indigenous 
Mobilization in Solola
	Timothy J. Smith	000
2. Reviving Our Spirits: Revelation, Re-encuentro, and Retroceso in 
PostPeace Accords Verapaz
	Abigail E. Adams	000
3. Peace under Fire: Understanding Evangelical Resistance to the Peace 
Process in a Postwar Guatemalan Town
	J. Jailey Philpot-Munson	000
4. Living and Selling in the "New Violence" of Guatemala
	Walter E. Little	000
5. Everyday Violence of Exclusion: Women in Precarious Neighborhoods of 
Guatemala City
	Liliana Goldin and Brenda Rosenbaum	000
6. Bilingual Bicultural Education: Best Intentions across a Cultural 
Divide
	Judith M. Maxwell	000
7. Intergenerational Conflict in the Postwar Era
	Jennifer L. Burrell	000
8. Desires and Imagination: The Economy of Humanitarianism in Guatemala
	Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez	000
9. Everyday Politics in a K'iche' Village of Totonicapan, Guatemala
	Barbara Bocek	000
10. Fried Chicken or Pop? Redefining Development and Ethnicity in 
Totonicapan
	Monica DeHart	000
11. Neoliberal Violence: Social Suffering in Guatemala's Postwar Era
	Peter Benson and Edward F. Fischer	000
12. Harvest of Conviction: Solidarity in Guatemalan Scholarship, 
19882004
	David Stoll	000
Conclusions
	Robert M. Carmack	000
References	000
List of Contributors	000
Index	000