Conflict in Colonial Sonora: Indians, Priests, and Settlers by David Yetman (review)
The book calls into question more static interpretations of Guatemala's social relations, particularly those that too neatly divide the country into indigenous and ladino spheres, separated by equally neat lines of geography and culture. In Komisaruk's formulation, Hispanization is not an either/or proposition, but rather a more fluid aspect of Guatemala's complex cultural formations. Yet by the late 1830s, these lines seemed to harden. Komisaruk argues that this change did not represent colonial continuity, but was rather a response to the emergent liberal modernity of a newly independent Guatemala.