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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL. 2009. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and but does have underlining in chapters 3 and 8. Book Condition: Very Good; light tip bumping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or folded; text is secure in binding. 219 pp 8vo. This volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan languages, places current anthropological analyses in relation to Mayan political activism and key Mayan intellectuals' research and criticism. Illustrating specifically how Mayas in this post-war period conceive of their social and political place in Guatemala, Mayas working in factories, fields, and markets, and participating in local, community-level politics provide critiques of the government, the Maya movement, and the general state of insecurity and social and political violence that they continue to face on a daily basis. Their critical assessments and efforts to improve political, social, and economic conditions illustrate their resiliency and positive, nonviolent solutions to Guatemala's ongoing problems that deserve serious consideration by Guatemalan and US policy makers, international non-government organizations, peace activists, and even academics studying politics, social agency, and the survival of indigenous people. A clean very presentable copy.