This chapter weaves together these struggles over counting, struggles that encompass repair, territory, land, subsistence, money, resources, and networks, and connects them to historic memory, which increasingly includes Classic Maya numeracy—which is, like bones or gold, a precious thing extracted from the ground. Reenergized by the global fascination with 2012, activists are drawing on the Maya’s famous mathematical skills to reinvigorate “Mayan sabiduria (savoir)” and “ser Mayab” (being). Like electricity, the energies surrounding ethnic revitalization run in currents that can experience disruption and blackouts. These moments interact with the infrastructural divisions between “populares” and...