...John C. Pine The Livingston Codes in the Guatemalan Crisis of 1837-1838 . By Rodriguez Mario . New Orleans , 1955 . Middle American Research Institute. Tulane University . Publication 23. Pp. 32 . Paper. Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

...Robert S. Smith Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 DOCUMENTS RETAIL STOCK OF A GUATEMALAN STORE, 1780. New Guatemala was only four years old in 1780. To write the economic history of the capital, following the devastating earthquake of 1773, would require the use of many documents...

...Dana Munro Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Political Changes in Guatemalan Indian Communities. A Symposium . Compiled by Adams Richard N. . Edited by Harrison Margaret W. and Wauchope Robert . New Orleans , 1957 . Tulane University . Middle American...

...Charles Wagley Copyright 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 The Culture of Security in San Carlos: A Study of a Guatemalan Community of Indians and Ladinos . By Gillin John . [ Middle American Research Institute: Tulane University, Publication No. 16 .] ( New Orleans : Tulane...

...William J. Griffith Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy . By Tax Sol . [ Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology .] ( Washington : Government Printing Office , 1953 . Pp. x , 230 . Maps, charts, index. Paper . $1.75 .) Copyright 1954 by Duke...

... of the episodes he documents will be familiar to readers who follow Guatemalan politics, but Perera is such a good writer and such a keen observer that his accounts are fresh and subtle. Each section focuses on a different theme. The first, on the Ixil, concentrates on the military and the atrocities...

... a new agenda for the study of power relationships between the government, socioeconomic elites, and the indigenous majority in this central American state. Thus a collection of essays by leading U.S. experts on Guatemalan history, published in 1992 and covering the period from the conquest to the 1980s...

... as disposed to derive meaning from one of her informant’s dreams as to measure family characteristics by resorting to tests and questionnaires. Vlach, who teaches social work at San Jose State University and is herself of Guatemalan lineage, states that her book “has two objectives: (1) examination...

...Jim Handy Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 In his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán declared, “The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base...

...Benson Saler Panajachel: A Guatemalan Town in Thirty-Year Perspective . By Hinshaw Robert E. . Foreword by Tax Sol . Pittsburgh , 1975 . University of Pittsburgh Press . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxvii , 203 . Cloth...

...Susan Masuoka Guatemalan Backstrap Weaving is suggested for weavers wishing to duplicate Highland Indian textiles. For students seeking a scholarly overview of Guatemala’s rich costume tradition, however, Lila M. O’Neale’s book (available from Johnson Reprint Corporation) is a better...

...David Maybury-Lewis Crucifixion by Power. Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-1966 . By Adams Richard Newbold . With chapters by Murphy Brian and Roberts Bryan . Austin, Texas , 1970 . The University of Texas Press . Maps. Tables. Graphs. Bibliography...

... of changing ethnic identity, while contrasted with that of other scholars, is not integrated by any discernible theoretical perspective. As a symbolic approach to the study of Indian identity in a Guatemalan town, this work largely confines itself to a description and analysis of two religious systems...

...Richard N. Adams Campesino: The Diary of a Guatemalan Indian . Translated and edited by Sexton James D. . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1985 . Appendix. Notes. References. Index . Pp. 448 . Cloth. $22.50 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

... in control and publicly proclaimed their steadfast loyalty to Ferdinand VII. Although burdensome “patriotic donations” were called for in ever-increasing amounts, the Guatemalan ruling classes, Creole and Peninsular, displayed little sentiment for a break with Spain, and charges to the contrary were...