After the coup
Subtitle: an ethnographic reframing of Guatemala, 1954
By: edited by Timothy J. Smith and Abigail E. Adams
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780252077845; 9780252035869
Subjects: Politics and government; Violence against; Mayas; Influence; Ethnology; Ethnic relations; History
Description: This Exceptional Collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Scholars who have worked in Guatemala from the 1940's to the present frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970's and 1980's. Highlighting the voices of individuals with whom they have lived and worked, the contributors offer an unmatched understanding of how the events preceding and following the coup played out on the ground. This volume is of particular interest in the current era of the United States' re-emerging foreign policy based on preemptive strikes and a presumed clash of civilizations.

Timothy J. Smith is an assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University.

Abigail E. Adams is a professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reflecting upon the historical impact of the coup / Timothy J. Smith and Abigail E. Adams; title: Antonio Goubaud Carrera : between the contradictions of the generación de 1920 and U.S. anthropology / Abigail E. Adams; title: Recovering the truth of the 1954 coup : restoring peace with justice / June C. Nash; title: A democracy born in violence : Maya perceptions of the 1944 Patzicía Massacre and the 1954 coup / David Carey Jr.; title: The politics of land, identity, and silencing : a case study from El Oriente of Guatemala, 1944-54 / Christa Little-Siebold; title: The path back to literacy : Maya education through war and beyond / Judith M. Maxwell; title: Democracy delayed : the evolution of ethnicity in Guatemala society, 1944-96 /  Richard N. Adams.