Szok, Peter2014-07-222014-07-2220132013https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/4497This dissertation examines the remarkable growth of the Guatemalan indigenous struggle in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and its post-civil war challenges. The Maya remain a divided people comprising twenty-two different ethnic groups struggling to form a unified position within Guatemala. While a great deal has been written on both modern Guatemala and its large Mayan population, the historiography fails to examine the impact that the thirty-six year civil conflict had on indigenous mobilization. Renowned anthropologists Kay B. Warren and Robert Carmack spent decades studying the Maya. Whereas their examinations focus on diversity and multi-ethnic challenges, my work centers on the Popular Left's effect on indigenous mobilization. On numerous trips to Guatemala, I found evidence to support my ideas surrounding both the eruption of indigenous activism in the late 1970s and the effect that the Guatemalan left had on the indigenous movement leading up to, and beyond the 1996 Peace Agreement.Format: OnlineengEmbargoed until May 22, 2015: Texas Christian University.No search engine accessMayas Guatemala Politics and government.Mayas Guatemala Ethnic identity.Mayas Guatemala Government relations.Mayas Guatemala Social life and customs.Guatemala Politics and government 1985-Text