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Fear as a way of life : Mayan widows in rural Guatemala / Linda Green.
Penn Museum Library F1465.2.C3 G74 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cakchikel women--Wars.
- Cakchikel women.
- Cakchikel women--Crimes against.
- Cakchikel women--Social conditions.
- War widows--Guatemala--Social conditions.
- War widows.
- War widows--Guatemala--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- War.
- Guatemala--Politics and government.
- Guatemala.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designed to not only defeat a left-wing, revolutionary insurgency but also destroy Mayan communities and culture. The Mayan Indians in the western highlands were labeled by the government as revolutionary sympathizers, and many Mayan women lost husbands, sons, and other family members who were brutally murdered or who simply "disappeared."
- Based on years of field research conducted in the rural highlands, Fear as a Way of Life traces the intricate links between the recent political violence and repression and the long-term systemic violence connected with class inequalities and gender and ethnic oppression--the violence of everyday life.
- Contents:
- Six Women from Xe'caj xvii
- Part 1 A Legacy of Violence 1
- 1. In the Aftermath of War: An Introduction 3
- 2. The Altiplano: A History of Violence and Survival 25
- 3. Living in a State of Fear 55
- Part 2 A Legacy of Survival 81
- 4. From Wives to Widows: Subsistence and Social Relations 83
- 5. The Embodiment of Violence: Lived Lives and Social Suffering 111
- 6. The Dialectics of Cloth 127
- 7. Shifting Affiliations: Social Exigencies and Evangelicos 149
- 8. Mutual Betrayal and Collective Dignity 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231100329
- 0231100337
- OCLC:
- 40567348
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