5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question: Rigoberta Menchú Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. List of Abbreviations xvii
6. 1. Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala 1
7. 2. Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation 41
8. 3. State Fetishism and the Piñata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture 74
9. 4. Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992 128
10. 5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question: Rigoberta Menchú Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity 170
11. 6. Bodies That Splatter: Gender, “Race,” and the Discourses of Mestizaje 206
12. 7. Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala 245
13. 8. A Transnational Frame-Up: ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law 283
14. 9. Global Biopolitical Economy: Prosthetics and Blood Politics 348
15. Appendix. Selected Rigoberta Menchú Jokes 373
16. Glossary 379
17. Works Cited 383
18. Index 407