... resistance, accommodation, and collaboration. The persistence of Mayan markers throughout the images stands as a reminder that Maya-Kaqchikel are not simply reinventing a sense of nation with murals; rather, they have been reclaiming the nation at every step in its long, often harsh history. For the recent...

...-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkib’ij kan qate’ qatata’ (2001), Ojer taq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People) (2004), and Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Kaqchikel as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875 – 1970 (2006). Michael Mark Cohen teaches American...