Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: ‘‘Putting the Mayan in the Mall’’ 1
5. One. ‘‘Like Sturdy Little Animals’’: Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s–1944 13
6. Two. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto 41
7. Three. Oficios de su Sexo: Gender, the Informal Economy, and Anticommunist Development 67
8. Four. Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Economics, and War 94
9. Five. Executing Capital: Green Revolution, Genocide, and the Transition to Neoliberalism 124
10. Six. A Society of Vendors: Contradictions and Everyday Life in the Guatemalan Market 152
11. Seven. Cuatro Gramos Norte: Fragmentation and Concentration in the Wake of Victory 181
12. Appendix. A Grass-roots List of Transnationals in Guatemala, circa 1978 210
13. Notes 217
14. Glossary 277
15. Bibliography 279
16. Index 301