Indigenous territories on the border: The Chuj in the liberal period (1871-1944) on the Guatemala-Mexico border
Keywords:
State-Nation, Guatemala, México, Border, Privatization of indigenous land, Expansion of agricultural frontiersAbstract
The following presents the case of the Mayan Chuj and their territory, located at the Guatemala-Mexico borderline, focusing on the times of the Guatemalan liberal period (1871-1944). During which a regional space reshaping occurs, where the Chuj peoples lose lands and rights beginning with several processes driven from the same Guatemalan State. Municipal power control is added to these facts from the stand point of the role played by the Ladino population (mestizos of low income) who come to settle in the municipal head cities. The whole of these measures produced serious space-social breakdowns in the management and representation of the Chuj territories
Downloads
Issue
Section
Dossier
License
The author publishing in this journal agrees to the following terms.
a. Author retains the copyright and grants the journal the right of first publication of the work.
b. Texts will be disseminated under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative licence, which allows the work to be shared with third parties, provided that they acknowledge authorship, their initial publication in this journal, and the terms of the licence. It is not permitted to make commercial use of the work nor to distribute derivative works without the copyright holder's explicit permission.
