Class And Community In Rural Guatemala
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Class And Community In Rural Guatemala
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Author : Jim Handy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Class And Community In Rural Guatemala written by Jim Handy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Agricultural laws and legislation categories.
Global Maya
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Author : Liliana R. Goldín
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Global Maya written by Liliana R. Goldín and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Social Science categories.
In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala’s changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems, she examines how people make a living and how they think about their options, practices, and constraints. Drawing on interviews and surveys—even retellings of traditional narratives—she reveals how contemporary Maya respond to the increasingly globalized yet locally circumscribed conditions in which they work. Goldín presents four case studies: cottage industries devoted to garment production, vegetable growing for internal and border markets reached through direct commerce, crops grown for export, and wage labor in garment assembly factories. By comparing generational and gendered differences among workers, she reveals not only complexities of change but also how these complexities arereflected in changing attitudes, understandings, and aspirations that characterize people’s economic ideology. Further, she shows that as rural people take on diverse economic activities, they also reinterpret their views on such matters as accumulation, cooperation, competition, division of labor, and community solidarity. Global Maya explores global processes in local terms, revealing the interplay of traditional values, household economics, and the inescapable conditions of demographic growth, a shrinking land base, and a global economy always looking for cheap labor. It offers a wealth of new insights not only for Maya scholars but also for anyone concerned with the effects of globalization on the Third World.
The Redivision Of Labor
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Author : Laurel Bossen
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1984-01-01
The Redivision Of Labor written by Laurel Bossen and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Social Science categories.
How does economic development affect women in Latin America? This work examines the different ways that economic and social relations between the sexes are redefined in Guatemala as capitalist expansion transforms the nation. An unusual and rich combination of fieldwork in four communities supplemented by national-level data shows there are major differences in the sexual division of labor in four major segments of Guatemalan society: the Maya peasantry, the plantations, the urban poor, and the middle class. Without losing sight of the role of each community within the national economy, local economic and social options are described to show how economic change alters women's status relative to men's. The treatment of these differences goes beyond quantitative summaries to include life histories illustrating the complex choices women make and their adaptive strategies. The importance of cultural, class, and regional differences are brought to bear on the interpretation of different patterns of male-female relations, while local community adaptations are set against the larger background of capitalist expansion in Latin America. This book provides a unique contribution to the literature of Mesoamerican communities in that it redresses the imbalance in community-level coverage of women's economic and social position within the Maya population, and it provides data on several types of communities that have scarcely been covered by anthropologists working in Mesoamerica. The comparative material on Maya and Ladino, rural and urban, and the poor and the elite is used to advance the theoretical understanding of the changing causes of women's subordination in the Third World. Rejecting conventional explanations of machismo and traditional culture as cause of male dominance, this work explores the multi-faceted effects of the larger capitalist system on sexual stratification.
Guatemala Rural Community Action
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Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Guatemala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Guatemala Rural Community Action written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Guatemala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Agriculture categories.
Witnesses To Political Violence In Guatemala
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Author : Shelton H. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Witnesses To Political Violence In Guatemala written by Shelton H. Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Civil rights categories.
Field study of the impact of political violence on rural development and indigenous community life in Guatemala - reports on human rights violations, suppression of the rural area leadership and cooperative movement, aftermath of the seism, etc.; examines impacts on the agricultural sector and food production, health, education, religion and the family; looks at refugees, rural poverty, role of the armed forces and national liberation movements, role of USA and implications for development aid. Photographs, statistical tables.
Rural Guatemala 1760 1940
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Author : David McCreery
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1994
Rural Guatemala 1760 1940 written by David McCreery and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala first examines the nature of rural society in the late colonial period and early decades of independence, and then details the massive and enduring changes caused by the spread of large-scale coffee production after the mid-nineteenth century. In the process, it also contributes to a number of important debates in Latin American studies and the theoretical literature of development: the structure of land tenure, the effects of the shift to export agriculure, the exploitation of indigenous populations, the forms of peasant resistance, and the role of state institutions in the politics of development. The book is in two parts. Part I describes rural life and economy in Guatemala through the cochineal boom of the 1850's. Part II shows how coffee dramatically changed the economy of Guatemala.
Guatemalan Indians And The State
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Author : Carol A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1992-04-01
Guatemalan Indians And The State written by Carol A. Smith and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-01 with History categories.
Violence in Central America, especially when directed against Indian populations, is not a new phenomenon. Yet few studies of the region have focused specifi cally on the relationship between Indians and the state, a relationship that may hold the key to understanding these conflicts. In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala's distinctive history and social order. In chapters by such respected scholars as Robert Cormack, Ralph Lee Woodward, Christopher Lutz, Richard Adams, and Arturo Arias, the history of Indian activism in Guatemala unfolds. The authors reveal that the insistence of Guatemalan Indians on maintaining their distinctive cultural practices and traditions in the face of state attempts to eradicate them appears to have fostered the development of an increasingly oppressive state. This historical insight into the forces that shaped modern Guatemala provides a context for understanding the extraordinary level of violence that enveloped the Indians of the western highlands in the 1980s, the continued massive assault on traditional religious and secular culture, the movement from a militarized state to a militarized civil society, and the major transformations taking place in Guatemala's traditional export-oriented economy. In this sense, Guatemalan Indians and the State, 1540 to 1988 provides a revisionist social history of Guatemala.
Justice In The Highlands
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Author : Sara S. Quinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Justice In The Highlands written by Sara S. Quinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Indigenous Movements And Their Critics
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Author : Kay B. Warren
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Indigenous Movements And Their Critics written by Kay B. Warren and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Social Science categories.
In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics. The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class.
Area Handbook For Guatemala
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Author : John Dombrowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Area Handbook For Guatemala written by John Dombrowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Guatemala categories.
Basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institutions and practices of Guatemala.