Indians are drunks and drunks are Indians : alcohol and indigenismo in Guatemala, 1890-1940

This article explores the ways in which the use of alcohol articulated with the discourse of indigenismo in Guatemala between the late 1890s and the late 1930s. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the public language of alcoholism merged with that of indigenism.

Main Author: Garrard-Burnett, Virginia
Format: Artigo de revista
Language: English
Published: 2011
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