Transcription of Maya Languages and Personal Names -- Introduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence -- Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right -- Coalitions and the Peace Process -- In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist -- Civil War: Enemies Without and Within -- Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony -- Interrogating Official History -- Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest -- "Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community -- Indigenous Activism across Generations -- Conclusions: Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity" -- Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index