Guatemala: Indian Attitudes toward Land Tenure

Naylor, Robert A.

doi:10.2307/164864

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“…Scholarly opinion presently ranges from Robert Naylor's rather naive impression of there being "little discernible change" in Maya life, of its continuing "much the same as before," to Carol Smith's more realistic but insufficiently documented assertion that native communities "lost about half of the lands they traditionally claimed during the colonial period." 76 Land acquisition was fueled by the realization that several regions of Guatemala, especially the Verapaz highlands and the Pacific piedmont, offered ideal growing conditions for the cultivation of coffee. Zones that had been relatively untouched by the cacao boom and indigo fever of colonial times (both these produits moteurs grew best in lower, warmer environments), Verapaz and the Pacific piedmont became the focus of considerable land speculation.…”

Section: Conquest By Local and International Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surviving Conquest: The Maya of Guatemala in Historical Perspective

Lovell

1988

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Little by little heavy shadows and black night enveloped our fathers and grandfathers and us also, oh, my sons …!All of us were thus. We were born to die!The Annals of the Cakchiquels (ca. 1550–1600)The Maya of Guatemala are today, as they have been in the past, a dominated and beleaguered group. Few have expressed this enduring reality more poignantly than the late Oliver La Farge. Commenting forty years ago on why Kanjobal Indians take to drink, La Farge observed that “while these people undoubtedly suffer from drunkenness, one would hesitate to remove the bottle from them until the entire pattern of their lives is changed. They are an introverted people, consumed by internal fires which they cannot or dare not express, eternally chafing under the yoke of conquest, and never for a moment forgetting that they are a conquered people.”

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Section: Conquest By Local and International Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%