Resumen de Respecting Relationships and Dia de Guadalupe: Q'eqchi' Mayan Identities in Livingston, Guatemala
When identities are understood as relationships between individuals, histories. and systems of power, tile dichotomies traditionally used to understand Latin American identities (i.e. indio vs. ladino) do not hold up under scrutiny. This article explores identity formation among Q'eqchi' Mayan migrants in Livingston, Guate-mala by examining the festival of the Virgen de Guadalupe and by analyzing a sociocultural model of meaning created and reproduced through everyday practice and processes of identification. By revealing how Q'eqchi' identities, and the cultural framework which shapes them, emerge from historic and contemporary relations, the author demonstrates not only the constructed nature of identities and cultural models, but also their means of reproduction as multifaceted reflections of interpersonal and translocal systems of power.
