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Quich Rebelde
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Author : Ricardo Falla
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2001-08-15
Quich Rebelde written by Ricardo Falla 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 2001-08-15 with Social Science categories.
Among the major challenges they have faced has been the imposition of outside religions. Quiche Rebelde examines what happened when Accion Catolica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Qhiche, to convert its inhabitants.
Quich Rebelde
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Author : Ricardo Falla
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Quich Rebelde written by Ricardo Falla 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 2014-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major changes wrought in their way of life by centuries of submission, the Maya have managed to regenerate, and thus maintain, their self-identity. Among the major challenges they have faced has been the imposition of outside religions. Quiché Rebelde examines what happened when Acción Católica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiché, to convert its inhabitants. Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist, analyzes the movement's origins and why some people became part of it while others resisted. He shows how religion was used as another tool to readapt to the changing environment—natural, economic, political, and social. His work is the first major empirical study of how change occurred in a Maya community with no serious loss of Maya identity—and how the process of conversion is related to more general processes of cultural change that actually strengthen ethnic identity.
Quich Rebelde
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Author : Ricardo Falla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Quich Rebelde written by Ricardo Falla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with RELIGION categories.
Faces Of Resistance
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Author : S. Ashley Kistler
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Faces Of Resistance written by S. Ashley Kistler and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with History categories.
"The Maya have faced innumerable and constant challenges to their cultural identities in the last 500 years, from the subjugation of the contact and colonial periods, to the brutality of state-sponsored violence in Guatemala and the introduction of new global technologies. Oral tradition plays a fundamental role among the contemporary Maya as a means to record history and resist oppression. Although scholars have examined the processes of resistance and identity in different spheres, The Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity is the first to unpack the importance of heroes as a cornerstone of Maya cultural and political resistance. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores how Maya communities draw on stories of indigenous heroes as an empowering cultural memory and a way to connect with the legacy of their extraordinary past. In particular, this volume considers how the Maya, following centuries of persecution and marginalization, use historical knowledge to generate and fortify their indigenous identities. The analysis of Maya heroes presented in this volume reveals that narratives of hero figures help the Maya to re-connect with an understanding of their history that has survived centuries of oppression and legitimize the practices, beliefs, and morality that will define their future"--
Repression Resistance And Democratic Transition In Central America
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Author : Latin American Studies Association. International Congress
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
Repression Resistance And Democratic Transition In Central America written by Latin American Studies Association. International Congress and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
For Central America, the last third of the 20th century was a time of dramatic change in which most countries shifted from dictatorships to formal political democracy. This study demonstrates how revolt and revolution served as the motors of political change in Central America. The book examines the various ways in which democratic transition has taken place - all of which have been distinct from countries in South America, where democratization was relatively sudden and peaceful. It analyzes the major forces shaping change in the region and provides the recent political history of all six Central American countries: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama. Each country's particular transition should add to the reader's understanding of democratization.
Indigenous Peoples National Parks And Protected Areas
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Author : Stan Stevens
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Indigenous Peoples National Parks And Protected Areas written by Stan Stevens 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 2014-09-18 with Nature categories.
""This passionate, well-researched book makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift in conservation practice. It explores new policies and practices, which offer alternatives to exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas and make possible new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples' rights and benefit from their knowledge and conservation contributions"--Provided by publisher"--
Resurgent Voices In Latin America
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Author : Edward L. Cleary
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Resurgent Voices In Latin America written by Edward L. Cleary and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Annotation After more than 500 years of marginalisation, Latin America's forty million Indians have gained political recognition and civil rights. Here, social scientists explore the important role of religion in indigenous activism, showing the ways that religion has strengthened indigenous identity and contributed to the struggle for indigenous rights.
Shattered Hope
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Author : Piero Gleijeses
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1992-08-17
Shattered Hope written by Piero Gleijeses 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 1992-08-17 with History categories.
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
Fieldwork Under Fire
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Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995
Fieldwork Under Fire written by Carolyn Nordstrom 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 1995 with Social Science categories.
"Required reading for anyone about to leave for the field. . . . A timely, deserving, and original contribution to a rapidly growing body of literature on the study of violence."—Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason University
Terror In The Land Of The Holy Spirit
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Author : Virginia Garrard-Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Terror In The Land Of The Holy Spirit written by Virginia Garrard-Burnett and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Religion categories.
"Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Ríos Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered. Virginia Garrard-Burnett dives into the horrifying, bewildering murk of this episode, the Western hemisphere's worst twentieth-century human rights atrocity. She has delivered the most lucid historical account and analysis we yet possess of what happened and how, of the cultural complexities, personalities, and local and international politics that made this tragedy. Garrard-Burnett asks the hard questions and never flinches from the least comforting answers. Beautifully, movingly, and clearly written and argued, this is a necessary and indispensable book." -- Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? "Virginia Garrard-Burnett's Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit is impressively researched and argued, providing the first full examination of the religious dimensions of la violencia - a period of extreme political repression that overwhelmed Guatemala in the 1980s. Garrard-Burnett excavates the myriad ways Christian evangelical imagery and ideals saturated political and ethical discourse that scholars usually treat as secular. This book is one of the finest contributions to our understanding of the violence of the late Cold War period, not just in Guatemala but throughout Latin America." --Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University Drawing on newly-available primary sources including guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified US government records, Virginia Garrard-Burnett provides aa fine-grained picture of what happened during the rule of Guatelaman president-by-coup Efraín Ríos Montt. She suggests that three decades of war engendered an ideology of violence that cut not only vertically, but also horizontally, across class, cultures, communities, religions, and even families. The book examines the causality and effects of the ideology of violence, but it also explores the long durée of Guatemalan history between 1954 and the late 1970s that made such an ideology possible. More significantly, she contends that self-interest, willful ignorance, and distraction permitted the human rights tragedies within Guatemala to take place without challenge from the outside world.