Mayas in postwar Guatemala : Harvest of violence revisited / edited by Walter E. Little and Timothy J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Little, Walter E., 1963-

Smith, Timothy J., 1975-

Series:

Contemporary American Indian studies.

Contemporary American Indian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Guatemala--Politics and government.

Mayas.

Mayas--Crimes against--Guatemala.

Mayas--Guatemala--Government relations.

Guatemala--History--1945-1985.

Guatemala.

Guatemala--History--1985-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan languages, places current anthropological analyses in relation to Mayan political activism and key Mayan intellectuals' research and criticism. Illustrating specifically how Mayas in

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Revisiting Harvest of Violence in Postwar Guatemala - Walter E. Little; 1. Democracy Is Dissent: Political Confrontations and Indigenous Mobilization in Sololá - Timothy J. Smith; 2. Reviving Our Spirits: Revelation, Re-encuentro, and Retroceso in Post-Peace Accords Verapaz - Abigail E. Adams; 3. Peace under Fire: Understanding Evangelical Resistance to the Peace Process in a Postwar Guatemalan Town - J. Jailey Philpot-Munson; 4. Living and Selling in the "New Violence" of Guatemala - Walter E. Little

5. Everyday Violence of Exclusion: Women in Precarious Neighborhoods of Guatemala City - Liliana Goldín and Brenda Rosenbaum 6. Bilingual Bicultural Education: Best Intentions across a Cultural Divide - Judith M. Maxwell; 7. Intergenerational Conflict in the Postwar Era - Jennifer L. Burrell; 8. Desires and Imagination: The Economy of Humanitarianism in Guatemala - José Oscar Barrera Nuñez; 9. Everyday Politics in a K'iche' Village of Totonicapán, Guatemala - Barbara Bocek; 10. Fried Chicken or Pop? Redefining Development and Ethnicity in Totonicapán - Monica DeHart

11. Neoliberal Violence: Social Suffering in Guatemala's Postwar Era - Peter Benson and Edward F. Fischer 12. Harvest of Conviction: Solidarity in Guatemalan Scholarship, 1988-2008 - David Stoll; Conclusions - Robert M. Carmack; References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8243-7

OCLC:

609852658