Walter E Little
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85303 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Walter E Little |
| NOMBRES | Walter E |
| APELLIDO | Little |
| FIRMA | LITTLE W E |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0625-5851 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mayanists' Methods and Tradition Discourses
This essay reviews the following works:The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas. Edited by Karen Bassie-Sweet, with Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, and Andrés Brizuela Casimir. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 251. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781607813972
The Burden of the Ancients
Much has been written about Mayan beliefs but little with the historical depth and ethnographic detail that Allen J. Christenson brings to The Burden of the Ancients. He ambitiously traces Maya world renewal ceremonies from the Pre-Columbian past to the present-day town of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala.Using clear, utilitarian prose, Christenson has essentially written a two-part book. The first part reviews the Pre-Columbian evidence, including ma…
Territorialidad y convivencia del pueblo Tz’utujil de Santa María Visitación, Guatemala
"Las culturas heterogéneas que conviven en espacios comunes de coexistencia generan conflictividad social. Es preciso investigar, desde un conocimiento profundo de la realidad contextual, cuáles son los mecanismos que permiten superar estos conflictos, provocando procesos de convivencia. La investigación busca profundizar en el análisis de los conflictos territoriales del pueblo Tz’utujil de Santa María Visitación, desde la concepción de tierra y…
Antigua, Guatemala, Street Food Vendors
Based on long-term ethnographic research on livelihood practices in urban public spaces, I explore street food politics in Antigua, Guatemala. From various subjective vantage points, I describe the food vendors themselves, the handicraft vendors who constitute their primary clients, tourists who only by chance encounter them when purchasing handicrafts, and the city officials who are responsible for regulating the streets. I analyze the reasons w…
Language Use and Participatory Research
This essay explores various reasons and politics behind learning a field research language that go beyond the merely pragmatic function of being a tool to collect data. Moreover, the role of language competency in one's field language is interlinked with the ethics of conducting research and by reflecting on specific ethnographic contexts in Guatemala, it is possible to explore some of the contours of participatory research. One dimension, the ap…
Introduction
This introduction explores particular ways in which participatory research is practiced in Mesoamerica by ethnographers. It provides an introduction to the history of participatory research and its interlinkages to a host of ethical concerns that are explored in greater depth in eight, reflexive ethnographic essays by anthropologists who conduct research in Guatemala and Mexico. This introduction and the ten essays in this issue, including two co…
The Practices and Politics of Heritage in Antigua Guatemala
This article addresses tensions between two dominant heritage practices in Antigua Guatemala, one that is oriented around the regulation of buildings and streets and another that is oriented around the regulation of people as cultural and economic performers. I place these regulatory practices within a framework that uses Latour's (2005) concepts of mediation and assemblage-the relationship between materiality and humans-to discuss the contexts o…
Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala by Mary J. Holbrock
Reviewed by: Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala by Mary J. Holbrock Walter E. Little Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala. Mary J. Holbrock. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Pp. xviii + 250. $65.00 (hardcover). This book is less about literacy reinvention than about the difficulties of promoting and building literacy in Maya languages in Maya communities. Literacy in Maya languages in Guatemala has suffered for the same histor…
Constructing Citizenship
Nolan-Ferrell, Catherine A. (2012) Constructing Citizenship: Transnational Workers and Revolution on the Mexico-Guatemala Border 1880–1950, The University of Arizona Press ( Tucson, AZ), xii + 227 pp. $50.00 hbk. Throughout much of the world national borders are sites of economic, social and political contestation and fluidity. The back-and-forth flows of people for work, political asylum and leisure can correspond with and contradict the nationa…
Urban Economies and Spatial Governmentalities in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala
As one of 725 UNESCO World Heritage Properties, Antigua, Guatemala, is subject to local international regulations related to building codes and how streets and public places are occupied. These regulations are discussed within the theoretical framework of spatial governmentality to explore that relationship between governance and Maya street vendors' economic practices. I situate the scholarly discussion of spatial governmentality within a specif…
Police and Security in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala
La seguridad es una preocupación creciente tanto de los residentes locales y turistas internacionales en Antigua, Guatemala. La ciudad no estaba preparada para el aumento de los delitos relacionados con el turismo y el tráfico de drogas. Representaciones locales y nacionales de la Antigua como un tranquilo pueblo colonial español han estado fuera de sincronía con la realidad. La respuesta del Estado a la delincuencia se ha producido en relación c…
Introduction
Las relaciones entre la policía y los latinoamericanos y la policía y los turistas son complejas y en constante flujo, sobre todo en zonas turísticas. Sería tentador analizar la policía turística como agentes de intereses de la elite, pero hacerlo sería eludir el hecho crucial de que la policía de turismo y las prácticas policiales están situados dentro de matrices densas de las relaciones de poder. Nuestros datos etnográficos indican que aquello…
Façade to Street to Façade
AllUNESCOurban World Heritage sites are strictly regulated. InAntigua,Guatemala, this includes building façades and streets, as well as the use of public places. Homeowners and building owners, however, challenge regulations by using unapproved paints, signs, and building materials. Residents modify building façades to accommodate cars and open walls to effectively blend home-based businesses with the street. At the same time, street vendors cont…
The Mayan in the Mall
Years of Mayan Literature - by Tedlock, Dennis
The Tourism Encounter
DeHart, Monica C
Anthropos , Seite 653 - 654
Economies of Desire
Holiday in Mexico
Mexico is indelibly imprinted in the collective imagination of the United States as a romantic playground and land of the exotic otherness. Neither the intensity of transnational migration of Mexican workers living in the United States and Mexico, nor the now millions upon millions of American tourists who have traveled, toured, and played in Mexico’s Spanish colonial cities, indigenous markets, pre-Columbian sites, and long tropical beaches have…
Political Economy of Latin America
Countering Development
Performing Kinship
Reclaiming the Nation through Public Murals
In a nation that often silences them, Maya in Guatemala are increasingly expressing themselves through public murals. When teachers, artists, students, and other residents of San Juan Comalapa painted the history of their nation, town, and people, they portrayed resistance, accommodation, and collaboration. The persistence of Mayan markers throughout the images stands as a reminder that Maya-Kaqchikel are not simply reinventing a sense of nation …
Polluted Promises
Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
Living within the Mundo Maya Project
Mundo Maya (Maya World) tourism promotional materials prominently feature female Maya vendors because they are the Mayas most visible and accessible to outsiders. However, these vendors do not directly reap the benefits of monetary or institutional aid. Instead, they have learned to use the ways in which they are represented by tourism promotions for economic gain. Their experience reflects the contradictions between representation and agency in …
Home as a Place of Exhibition and Performance
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, has been incorporated into transnational movements of people, commodities, and ideas through tourism, development, and religious evangelism. The Kaqchikel Mayas living there have long looked outward from their community as they embraced, ignored, or criticized these global flows. Contemporary Kaqchikel Mayas have incorporated these global flows into …
Party and State in Peronist Argentina, 1945-1955
NE OF THE MOST SINGULAR ASPECTS of the Peronist movement has always been its lack of an effective political party. It is true that at election time the usual paraphemalia of party activity-local congresses, registration drives, discussion groups and the like-is in evidence, but despite pressure from militants within the movement, activity of this sort has always been ephemeral. One reason for this has been the unusually important role of the Pero…
Façade to Street to Façade
AllUNESCOurban World Heritage sites are strictly regulated. InAntigua,Guatemala, this includes building façades and streets, as well as the use of public places. Homeowners and building owners, however, challenge regulations by using unapproved paints, signs, and building materials. Residents modify building façades to accommodate cars and open walls to effectively blend home-based businesses with the street. At the same time, street vendors cont…
Outside of social movements
In Antigua, Guatemala, Maya handicrafts vendors work in a tourism marketplace that brings together multiple ethnolinguistic groups and international visitors. In this article I discuss the interrelationship between occupation and social movements to examine the essentialized identities propagated by the Maya Movement and Ladino racism. I argue that making a living helps shape the interrelated processes of economic and political mobilization. I us…
A Visual Political Economy of Maya Representations in Guatemala, 1931-1944
This essay discusses how Mayas, and visual images of them as discursively constructed subjects/objects, are located in dictator Jorge Ubico's economic development and modernization policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Ubico's contradictory policies of promoting Maya essentialness in contrast to the cultural and economic assimilation of Mayas informs both Guatemalan and scholarly attitudes about Mayas today. The essay recontextualizes this position by…
Argentine Workers. Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness
La organización obrera y el Estado peronista, 1943-1955
Electoral Aspects of Peronism, 1946-1954
Although it is of importance for any understanding of the Peronist regime as a whole, little is known in detail about the social character of the popular support upon which the regime was based. This state of affairs is not as paradoxical as it might at first seem. In part it is a reflection of the fact that the continued political importance of the Peronist movement has meant that until recently the debate over Peronism has been polemical in nat…
Introduction
This introduction explores particular ways in which participatory research is practiced in Mesoamerica by ethnographers. It provides an introduction to the history of participatory research and its interlinkages to a host of ethical concerns that are explored in greater depth in eight, reflexive ethnographic essays by anthropologists who conduct research in Guatemala and Mexico. This introduction and the ten essays in this issue, including two co…
Urban Economies and Spatial Governmentalities in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala
As one of 725 UNESCO World Heritage Properties, Antigua, Guatemala, is subject to local international regulations related to building codes and how streets and public places are occupied. These regulations are discussed within the theoretical framework of spatial governmentality to explore that relationship between governance and Maya street vendors' economic practices. I situate the scholarly discussion of spatial governmentality within a specif…
Police and Security in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala
La seguridad es una preocupación creciente tanto de los residentes locales y turistas internacionales en Antigua, Guatemala. La ciudad no estaba preparada para el aumento de los delitos relacionados con el turismo y el tráfico de drogas. Representaciones locales y nacionales de la Antigua como un tranquilo pueblo colonial español han estado fuera de sincronía con la realidad. La respuesta del Estado a la delincuencia se ha producido en relación c…
The Right and democracy in Latin America
Journal Article The Right and democracy in Latin America Get access The Right and democracy in Latin America. Edited by Douglas A. Chalmers, Maria do Carmo Campello de Souzaand Atilio A. Boron. New York, London: Praeger. 1992. 321pp. Index. £31.99. ISBN 0 275 93822 0. Walter Little Walter Little 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 1, January 1993…
The Falklands-Malvinas War
International conflict in Latin America
Journal Article International conflict in Latin America Get access Walter Little Walter Little Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, autumn 1987, Pages 589–601, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619639 Published: 01 October 1987
The Military in South American Politics
The Practices and Politics of Heritage in Antigua Guatemala
This article addresses tensions between two dominant heritage practices in Antigua Guatemala, one that is oriented around the regulation of buildings and streets and another that is oriented around the regulation of people as cultural and economic performers. I place these regulatory practices within a framework that uses Latour's (2005) concepts of mediation and assemblage-the relationship between materiality and humans-to discuss the contexts o…
Introduction
Las relaciones entre la policía y los latinoamericanos y la policía y los turistas son complejas y en constante flujo, sobre todo en zonas turísticas. Sería tentador analizar la policía turística como agentes de intereses de la elite, pero hacerlo sería eludir el hecho crucial de que la policía de turismo y las prácticas policiales están situados dentro de matrices densas de las relaciones de poder. Nuestros datos etnográficos indican que aquello…
Mayas in the Marketplace
Corruption and Democracy in Latin America
This essay examines the recent incidence of corruption as an issue in Latin American politics. It suggests that the process of democratization may have made corruption more pronounced. It concludes that Latin American democracy is more formal than substantive and that efforts to diminish corruption will not succeed until democracy is significantly deepened
Parliament and Arms Sales
Civil‐Military Relations in Contemporary Argentina
THE ISSUE OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS PRESENTS THE new Argentine government with several problems. One is the structuring of government, that is general staff relations. Moreover the new authorities must take a position in the short to medium term over the question of responsibility for the ‘dirty war’, the plundering of the public purse by the officer corps between 1976 and 1982 and the defeat in the war with Britain. And in the longer term they…
Argentina under Perón, 1973-1976
Dictators Never Die
Journal Article Dictators Never Die: A Portrait of Nicaragua and the Somoza Dynasty Get access Dictators Never Die: A Portrait of Nicaragua and the Somoza Dynasty. London: C. Hurst. 1979. 180 pp. £6.95. Walter Little Walter Little 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 1980, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615825 Published: 01 Jan…
The Mayan in the Mall
Electoral Aspects of Peronism, 1946-1954
Although it is of importance for any understanding of the Peronist regime as a whole, little is known in detail about the social character of the popular support upon which the regime was based. This state of affairs is not as paradoxical as it might at first seem. In part it is a reflection of the fact that the continued political importance of the Peronist movement has meant that until recently the debate over Peronism has been polemical in nat…
Party and State in Peronist Argentina, 1945-1955
NE OF THE MOST SINGULAR ASPECTS of the Peronist movement has always been its lack of an effective political party. It is true that at election time the usual paraphemalia of party activity-local congresses, registration drives, discussion groups and the like-is in evidence, but despite pressure from militants within the movement, activity of this sort has always been ephemeral. One reason for this has been the unusually important role of the Pero…
La organización obrera y el Estado peronista, 1943-1955
Dictators Never Die
Journal Article Dictators Never Die: A Portrait of Nicaragua and the Somoza Dynasty Get access Dictators Never Die: A Portrait of Nicaragua and the Somoza Dynasty. London: C. Hurst. 1979. 180 pp. £6.95. Walter Little Walter Little 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 1980, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615825 Published: 01 Jan…
A Note on Political Incorporation
The Plan Político of 1955 casts an unusually direct light on contemporary Peronist thinking about the relationship between legitimacy and mass electoral support. It also provides first hand evidence of the then government's determination to use the electoral process as well as various techniques of incorporation in the creation of a mass Peronist identity. Finished early in 1955 for the forthcoming Governors’ Meeting, it was intended as a politic…
The Falklands Affair
In search of policy
Journal Article In search of policy: the United States and Latin America and Rift and revolution: the Central American imbroglio Get access In search of policy: the United States and Latin America. By Howard J. Wiarda. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute. 1984. 147pp.Rift and revolution: the Central American imbroglio. Edited by Howard J. Wiarda. Washington, DC, London: American Enterprise Institute. 1984. 392pp. Index. $19.95. Pb.: $10…
Civil‐Military Relations in Contemporary Argentina
THE ISSUE OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS PRESENTS THE new Argentine government with several problems. One is the structuring of government, that is general staff relations. Moreover the new authorities must take a position in the short to medium term over the question of responsibility for the ‘dirty war’, the plundering of the public purse by the officer corps between 1976 and 1982 and the defeat in the war with Britain. And in the longer term they…
Argentina under Perón, 1973-1976
Discreet partners
Controlling Latin American Conflicts
The Military in South American Politics
International conflict in Latin America
Journal Article International conflict in Latin America Get access Walter Little Walter Little Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, autumn 1987, Pages 589–601, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619639 Published: 01 October 1987
The Land That Lost Its Heroes
The Falklands-Malvinas War
Great Power Relations in Argentina, Chile and Antarctica
Joel Horowitz, Argentine Unions, the State and the Rise of Perón, 1930-45 (Berkeley, CA)
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Administering Britain's Arms Trade
This article examines the administration of Britain's overseas arms trade through a consideration of the role of the main government departments concerned with its control and regulation ‐ the Department of Trade and Industry, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence. Additionally it examines the activities of ‘arms‐length’ public agencies such as the Defence Export Services Organisation and International Military Services …
Negotiating democracy
The Right and democracy in Latin America
Journal Article The Right and democracy in Latin America Get access The Right and democracy in Latin America. Edited by Douglas A. Chalmers, Maria do Carmo Campello de Souzaand Atilio A. Boron. New York, London: Praeger. 1992. 321pp. Index. £31.99. ISBN 0 275 93822 0. Walter Little Walter Little 1University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 1, January 1993…
Parliament and Arms Sales
Argentine Workers. Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness
Political Suicide in Latin America and Other Essays
The 'Nazi Menace' in Argentina, 1931-1947
Democracy in Latin America
This essay examines, by way of a series of brief country sketches, the current state of democratization in Latin America. It argues that in the formal sense progress has been significant but that only in a handful of countries has the economic development which democracy requires taken place. Many serious impediments (corruption, party weaknesses, public alienation, and poor policy implementation among them) remain. It will be decades before a de…
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