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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1: GLOBAL POLITICS AND NATION-STATES -- 1. Cultural Rights and Human Rights: A Social Science Perspective -- 2. Perspectives on the Politics of Human Rights in Guatemala -- 3. Legal Globalization and Human Rights: Constructing the Rule of Law in Postconflict Guatemala? -- PART 2: CULTURAL CONTENTIONS -- 4. The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 5. Are Human Rights Destroying the Natural Balance of All Things? The Difficult Encounter between International Law and Community Law in Mayan Guatemala -- 6. ''Here It's Different'': The Ch'orti' and Human Rights Training -- 7. Indigenous Law and Gender Dialogues -- 8. Human Rights, Land Conflicts, and Memory of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiché -- PART 3: POLITICAL ENGAGEMENTS -- 9. Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights in Chiapas -- 10. Breaking the Reign of Silence: Ethnography of a Clandestine Cemetery -- 11. Rights of the Poor: Progressive Catholicism and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas -- 12. ''Asumiendo Nuestra Propia Defensa'': Resistance and the Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas -- Final Comments. Making Rights Meaningful for Mayas: Reflections on Culture, Rights, and Power -- References -- Contributors -- Index