{"product_id":"a-finger-in-the-wound-body-politics-in-quincentennial-guatemala-9780520212855","title":"A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany 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 itthose 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 questionsalong with the jokes  ambivalences  and structures of desire that surround themin 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 Mayanand Guatemalanidentity. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646906392629,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520212851","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520212855.jpg?v=1781681047","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-finger-in-the-wound-body-politics-in-quincentennial-guatemala-9780520212855","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}