Guatemalan Journey
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Guatemalan Journey
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Author : Stephen Connely Benz
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-05-28
Guatemalan Journey written by Stephen Connely Benz 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 2010-05-28 with Travel categories.
Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores the Guatemala that casual travelers miss, using his encounters with ordinary Guatemalans at the mall, on the streets, at soccer games, and even at the funeral of massacre victims to illuminate the social reality of Guatemala today. The book opens with an extended section on the capital, Guatemala City, and then moves out to the more remote parts of the country where the Guatemalan Indians predominate. Benz offers us a series of intelligent and sometimes humorous perspectives on Guatemala's political history and the role of the military, the country's environmental degradation, the influence of foreign missionaries, and especially the impact of the United States on Guatemala, from governmental programs to fast food franchises.
Paradise In Ashes
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Author : Beatriz Manz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004
Paradise In Ashes written by Beatriz Manz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838
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Author : George Washington Montgomery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838 written by George Washington Montgomery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Belize categories.
Journey To The Republic Of Guatemala Land Of The Maya
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Author : Kalman Dubov
language : en
Publisher: Kalman Dubov
Release Date : 2023-05-10
Journey To The Republic Of Guatemala Land Of The Maya written by Kalman Dubov and has been published by Kalman Dubov this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-10 with History categories.
The Central American country of Guatemala was populated by the Maya people whose empire extended from Honduras to the south to today's southern Mexico. Remnants of their presence are found throughout this region, with monumental architecture, cities, palaces, and great pyramids. Wherever one looks, the explosion of growth and development captures the viewer in its thrall. Even the many glyphs adorning these sites with their unique writing style are a marvel to behold. They lived here for an estimated two thousand years, and then, in the early 16th century, the Spanish came and conquered these people. By then, their greatness had already ended in the midst of the 10th century, when their culture and civilization collapsed. But they retained their culture by way of thousands of pictographic books which detailed their way of life and their advancements. But the Spaniards, zealous in their Catholicism, sought out and destroyed every such book they could find and burned them all. Except for three such books, known as the Maya Codices. Historians and scholars began the slow process of deciphering the Maya past. Great effort was expended and the reality of their lives, culture, kings, wars and daily practice began to emerge. And the world was astounded by the emerging picture. Perhaps a first in the world, was their mathematical calculation with 'zero,' a phenomenal achievement. Interestingly, the glyph of the zero depicted a woman - what mathematical genius was she to use zero in calculations? Their astronomy of the heavenly spheres was astoundingly precise, as was their knowledge of geometry and trigonometry. Their religion, however, included human sacrifices, following the practice of other nearby civilizations, such as the Aztecs, the Inca in South America, and others. The Spaniards stopped such worship and offerings and now subjugated these people into serfdom called encomiendas, or enforced working for the conquistadors and their descendants. Independence from Spain came in 1821, but the Mayan living conditions did not change. The country became divided between the Spanish descendants, now known as the Criollos, the middle class, known as Ladinos (not to be confused with Jews in 9th century Castilian Spain), and the Maya and other indigenous. The social distance from the upper to lower classes was immense. And that distance came forward during Guatemala's Civil War, from 1960 to 1996. The violence and massacres during this period was so evil, the president of the country, Rios Montt, was charged and convicted of Genocide, the first time a country charged its own leader with this crime. At a previous age and time, the face of Guatemala presented immense achievements. Today, violence, crime, and cultural penury is self-evident. Guatemala is a third-world country, where the majority of its people live in great poverty while the upper class has the land, its abundance and vast wealth.
Guatemala
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Author : Michael Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Purple Moon Press
Release Date : 2010-08-27
Guatemala written by Michael Shapiro and has been published by Purple Moon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-27 with Guatemala categories.
Invites you to jump on one of the country's brightly painted chicken buses and visit its bustling marketplaces, Mayan monuments, colonial town squares, and whitewashed churches, where baroque Catholic rituals meld with ancient Mayan beliefs to create a unique style of worship.
Between Light And Shadow
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Author : Jacob R. Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Between Light And Shadow written by Jacob R. Wheeler and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Family & Relationships categories.
An investigation into the Guatemalan adoption industry and its relationship to the United States examining the experience and politics of a new industry shrouded in secrecy.
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838 Classic Reprint
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Author : G. W. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-28
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838 Classic Reprint written by G. W. Montgomery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-28 with Travel categories.
Excerpt from Narrative of a Journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838 Having been honoured by the Government of the United States with a commission which required my proceeding to Guatemala, in Central America, I have been induced, since my return, to prepare the following little work, from an impression that a plain, unaffected narrative of a journey through a country rarely visited by travellers, and but little known, may not be uninteresting to an inquiring and enlightened public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838
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Author : George Washington Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Narrative Of A Journey To Guatemala In Central America In 1838 written by George Washington Montgomery and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Journey Of Dreams
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Author : Marjorie White Pellegrino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Journey Of Dreams written by Marjorie White Pellegrino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Guatemala categories.
When their village is destroyed in the Guatemalan Civil War, Tomasa and her family, except her mother and brother, who have been taken by the authorities, begin the long trek north in search of somewhere they will be safe.
Soldier W Guatemala Journey Into Evil
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Author : David Monnery
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-12
Soldier W Guatemala Journey Into Evil written by David Monnery and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Fiction categories.
In the Central American republic of Guatemala, government-sponsored torture and mass murder had reduced the Mayan Indian population to a despairing acquiescence, and after five hundred years of struggle it began to seem as if the conqueror's peace could at last be claimed in the capital. Then, at the beginning of 1995, a guerrilla leader whom the authorities had long believed dead sprang mysteriously back to life. No loyal Guatemalan could identify him, and the government was compelled to seek help elsewhere, from one of the two SAS soldiers who had helped to mediate a hostage crisis with the guerrilla almost fifteen years earlier. To the government in Whitehall it appeared a straightforward enough exercise, but for the soldier and his comrades the mission soon turned into a nightmare of impossible choices, and then land of Guatemala, magical and cruel by turns, proved much easier to enter than to escape.