The Guatemala Reader
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The Guatemala Reader
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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-31
The Guatemala Reader written by Greg Grandin and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-31 with History categories.
DIVAn interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English./div
Adi S Ni O
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Author : Deborah T. Levenson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Adi S Ni O written by Deborah T. Levenson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Social Science categories.
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. Part of Guatemala City's reconfigured social, political, and cultural milieu, with their members often trapped in Guatemala's growing prison system, the gangs are used to justify remilitarization in Guatemala's contemporary postwar, post-peace era. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationship between trauma, memory, and historical agency.
The Fourth Invasion
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Author : Giovanni Batz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-11-12
The Fourth Invasion written by Giovanni Batz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-12 with History categories.
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.
A Short History Of Guatemala
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Author : Ralph Lee Woodward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
A Short History Of Guatemala written by Ralph Lee Woodward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Guatemala categories.
In A SHORT HISTORY OF GUATEMALA, Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1962) briefly synthesizes the exciting history of Guatemala from its ancient Maya heritage to the present. Based on nearly a half-century of research on the history of this Central American republic, the work highlights the political, economic, and social evolution of Guatemala, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With keen insight into the struggle for economic and social development since national independence in 1821, Woodward offers a new interpretation of the country's past and present
Guatemala Never Again
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Author : Catholic Institute for International Relations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Guatemala Never Again written by Catholic Institute for International Relations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"As a church, we collectively and responsibly assumed the task of breaking the silence that thousands of war victims have kept for years. We opened up the possibility for them to talk, to have their say, to tell their stories of suffering and pain, so they might feel liberated from the burden that has been weighing down on them for so many years."
Reading Popol Wuj
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Author : Nathan C. Henne
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Reading Popol Wuj written by Nathan C. Henne 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 2020-04-14 with Social Science categories.
Popol Wujis considered one of the oldest books in the Americas. Various elements of Popol Wuj have appeared in different written forms over the last two millennia and several parts of Popol Wuj likely coalesced in hieroglyphic book form a few centuries before contact with Europeans. Popol Wuj offers a unique interpretation of the Maya world and ways of being from a Maya perspective. However, that perspective is often occluded since the extant Popol Wuj is likely a copy of a copy of a precontact Indigenous text that has been translated many times since the fifteenth century. Reading Popol Wujoffers readers a path to look beyond Western constructions of literature to engage with this text through the philosophical foundation of Maya thought and culture. This guide deconstructs various translations to ask readers to break out of the colonial mold in approaching this seminal Maya text. Popol Wuj, or Popol Vuh, in its modern form, can be divided thematically into three parts: cosmogony (the formation of the world), tales of the beings who inhabited the Earth before the coming of people, and chronicles of different ethnic Maya groups in the Guatemala area. Examining thirteen translations of the K’iche’ text, Henne offers a decolonial framework to read between what translations offer via specific practice exercises for reading, studying, and teaching. Each chapter provides a close reading and analysis of a different critical scene based on a comparison of several translations (English and Spanish) of a key K’iche’ word or phrase in order to uncover important philosophical elements of Maya worldviews that resist precise expression in Indo-European languages. Charts and passages are frontloaded in each chapter so the reader engages in the comparative process before reading any leading arguments. This approach challenges traditional Western reading practices and enables scholars and students to read Popol Wuj—and other Indigenous texts—from within the worldview that created them.
Blue Book Of Guatemala 1915
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Author : J. Bascome Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Blue Book Of Guatemala 1915 written by J. Bascome Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Guatemala categories.
Youth In Postwar Guatemala
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Author : Michelle J. Bellino
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Youth In Postwar Guatemala written by Michelle J. Bellino 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 2017-06-30 with Political Science categories.
In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country’s history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy. Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, to examine how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice traverse public and private spaces, as well as generations. Bellino documents the ways that young people critically examine injustice while shaping an evolving sense of themselves as civic actors. In a country still marked by the legacies of war and division, young people navigate between the perilous work of critiquing the flawed democracy they inherited, and safely waiting for the one they were promised...
Testimonio
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Author : Catherine Nolin
language : en
Publisher: Between the Lines
Release Date : 2021-10-25
Testimonio written by Catherine Nolin and has been published by Between the Lines this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-25 with Business & Economics categories.
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry—a staggeringly profitable juggernaut of exploitation, sanctioned and supported every step of the way by the Canadian government. This edited collection calls on Canadians to hold our government and companies fully to account for their role in enabling and profiting from violence in Guatemala. The text stands apart in featuring a series of unflinching testimonios (testimonies) authored by Indigenous community leaders in Guatemala, as well as wide-ranging contributions from investigative journalists, scholars, Lawyers, activists, and documentarians on the ground. As resources are ripped from the earth and communities and environments ripped apart, the act of standing in solidarity and bearing witness—rather than extracting knowledge—becomes more radical than ever.