| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Transcription of Maya Languages and Personal Names | |
| Introduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence | 3 |
| 1 | Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right | 33 |
| 2 | Coalitions and the Peace Process | 52 |
| 3 | In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist | 69 |
| 4 | Civil War: Enemies Without and Within | 86 |
| 5 | Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony | 113 |
| 6 | Interrogating Official History | 132 |
| 7 | Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest | 148 |
| 8 | "Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community | 163 |
| 9 | Indigenous Activism across Generations | 177 |
| Conclusions: Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity" | 194 |
| App. 1 | Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | 211 |
| App. 2 | Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists | 215 |
| Glossary: Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms | 217 |
| Notes | 221 |
| Bibliography | 251 |
| Index | 281 |
