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"Coming of age in the jungle, among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, and to share her space - and, perhaps most important, she learned to cook." "This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn't tackle: a "mountain cow," or tapir. Fry's efforts to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes."--Jacket.

Kekchi Indians --- Maya cooking. --- Cookery, Maya --- Maya cookery --- Mayan cooking --- Cooking --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Social life and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies.

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" As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. In Maya Market Women, S. Ashley Kistler describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, Kistler presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet"--

HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Kekchi Indians --- Women merchants --- Kekchi women --- Women, Kekchi --- Women --- Market women --- Businesswomen --- Merchants --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Social life and customs. --- Economic conditions. --- Industries --- Social conditions. --- San Juan Chamelco (Guatemala) --- Chamelco (Guatemala)

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Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala's Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation efforts have turned Q'eqchi' Mayas into immigrants on their own land, and how this is part of a larger national effort to make Indigenous peoples into neoliberal citizens. Even as Q'eqchi's participate in conservation, Green Wars amplifies their call for material decolonization by recognizing the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land itself.

Sociology of environment --- National wealth --- Guatemala --- Natural resources --- Decolonization --- Kekchi Indians --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Management. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Land tenure --- Economic aspects --- Maya Forest --- Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Selva Maya --- Kekchí (Community : North) --- Qʼechqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Quekchí (Community : North) --- Conservation. --- Government relations --- History. --- academic. --- anthropology. --- archival research. --- biology. --- colonization. --- conservation. --- decolonization. --- dispossessed. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- environmentalism. --- environmentalist. --- ethnography. --- guatemala. --- immigrants. --- indigenous land. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous population. --- maya forest. --- mayan. --- migrants. --- natural world. --- nature. --- post colonial. --- protecting lands. --- public lands. --- qeqchi mayas. --- rainforest. --- scholarly.

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"This book tells the story of a Maya frontier in Alta Verapaz at the heart of Guatemalan national elites' dreams for building a modern nation based on coffee production and German immigration in the late nineteenth century, which ultimately became the center of anti-German revolutionary nationalism in the 1940s and 1950s. While charting these shifting elite efforts to define and create modernity, this book highlights how Mayas sought to carve out other modernities based on a blend of Maya cosmologies and radical liberalism. This work illustrates how state officials and non-Maya coffee planters disavowed these alternative projects. Our Time is Now thus focuses on the potency of historical time in the making of modernity and race as well as the limits of writing disenchanted history. Bridging the fields of subaltern and new capitalism studies, this book highlights the centrality of race and indigenous coerced labor in the formation of capitalism and demonstrates the legacy of nineteenth-century political and economic struggles in Guatemala's bloody civil war"--

Kekchi Indians --- Germans --- Coffee plantations --- Nationalism --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Coffee farms --- Coffee tree farms --- Plantations --- Tree farms --- Ethnology --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Politics and government --- Government relations --- Land tenure --- History --- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) --- Guatemala --- Verapaz, Alta (Guatemala) --- Verapaz (Guatemala) --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Ethnic relations --- History. --- Causes. --- Economic conditions. --- Emigration and immigration.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Economic Conditions --- Kekchi Indians --- Culture and globalization --- Free trade --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Land tenure --- Migrations --- Economic conditions --- Land tenure. --- Migrations. --- Economic conditions. --- CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- Guatemala --- Economic policy. --- Ethnic relations. --- Free trade and protection --- Trade, Free --- Trade liberalization --- Globalization and culture --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- CAFTA-DR (Free trade agreement) --- Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement --- Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic --- Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement --- DR-CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- RD-CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- TLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos --- Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos --- U.S.- CAFTA-DR Free Trade Agreement --- United States-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- International trade --- Globalization --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of environment