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Mayas in postwar Guatemala : Harvest of violence revisited /

Like the original Harvest of violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Little, Walter E., 1963-, Smith, Timothy J., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009.
Colección:Contemporary American Indian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: revisiting "Harvest of violence" in postwar Guatemala / Walter E. Little
  • Democracy is dissent: political confrontations and Indigenous mobilization in Sololá / Timothy J. Smith
  • Reviving our spirits: revelation, re-encuentro, and retroceso in post-peace accords Verapaz / Abigail E. Adams
  • Peace under fire: understanding evangelical resistance to the peace process in a postwar Guatemala town / J. Jailey Philmot-Munson
  • Living and selling in the "New Violence" of Guatemala / Walter E. Little
  • Everyday violence of exclusion: women in precarious neighborhoods of Guatemala City / Liliana Goldín and Brenda Rosenbaum
  • Bilingual bicultural education: best intentions across a cultural divide / Judith M. Maxwell
  • Intergenerational conflict in the postwar era / Jennifer L. Burrell
  • Desires and imagination: the economy of humanitarianism in Guatemala / José Oscar Barrera Nuñez
  • Everyday politics in a K'iche' village of Totonicapán, Guatemala / Barabara Bocek
  • Fried chicken or "Pop"
  • redefining development and ethnicity in Totonicapán / Monica DeHart
  • Neoliberal violence: social suffering in Guatemala's postwar era / Peter Benson, and Edward F. Fischer
  • Harvest of conviction: solidarity in Guatemala scholarship, 1988-2008 / David Stroll
  • Conclusion / Robert M. Carmack.