Contents: Introduction: emergent anthropologies & pluricultural ethnography in two postcolonial nations by John M. Watanabe & Edward F. Fischer - Culture history in national context: nineteenth-century Maya under Mexican & Guatemalan Rule by John M. Watanabe - Linguistic continuities & discontinuities in the Maya area by Victoria R. Bricker - The Summer Institute of Linguistics & the politics of Bible translation in Mexico: convergence, appropriation & consequence by Christine A. Kray - 'Everything has begun to change': appraisals of the Mexican state in Chiapas Maya discourse 1980-2000 by Gary H. Gossen - Beyond resistance & protest: the Maya quest for autonomy by June Nash - Rereading Tzotzil ethnography: recent scholarship from Chiapas, Mexico by Jan Rus - Angering the ancestors: transnationalism and economic transformation of Maya communities in western Guatemala by Victor Montejo...