Greg Grandin is Assistant Professor of History at New York University. He worked with the Guatemalan Truth Commission in 1997–1998.

The Greatest Indian City in the World Caste Gender and Politics 17501821 25

Defending the Pueblo Popular Protests and Elite Politics 17861826 54

A Pestilent Nationalism The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered 82

A House with Two Masters Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians 99

Principles to Patrones Macehmlcs to Mozos Land and Labor and the Commodification of Community 110

Regenerating the Race Race class and the Nationalization of Ethnicity 130

Time and Space among the Maya Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City 159

The Blood of Guatemalans Class Struggle and the Death of Kiche Nationalism 198

The Limits of Nation 19541999 220

Living among the Dead 234

Names and places 237

Glossary 241

NOTES 243

WORKS CITED 315

INDEX 337

Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, ‘Los Altos.’ Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a ‘high placee’ and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there.”—Francisco Goldman



“Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries’ worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions—political, economic, social, demographic—form a histore totale.”—John Demos, Yale University



“Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals.”—Deborah Levenson, Boston College
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“Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries’ worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions—political, economic, social, demographic—form a histore totale.”—John Demos, Yale University
“Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, ‘Los Altos.’ Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a ‘high placee’ and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there.”—Francisco Goldman

“Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals.”—Deborah Levenson, Boston College --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.