The Maya Of Guatemala
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The Maya Of Guatemala
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Author : Phillip Wearne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Maya Of Guatemala written by Phillip Wearne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
The Maya Of Guatemala
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Author : Phillip Wearne
language : en
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Release Date : 1994-09-01
The Maya Of Guatemala written by Phillip Wearne and has been published by Minority Rights Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-01 with Social Science categories.
MAYA: A PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE ‘As I go around the world, people seem surprised that we indigenous people of Central America still exist’, noted the Maya Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú in 1992. More than 500 years after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Maya, descendants of one of the greatest pre-Columbian civilizations, not only exist but are thriving. The survival of 21 different Maya speaking peoples in Guatemala is a living testimony to their powers of resistance. In recent years, the brutal conquest of their cities and mountain lands by Spanish conquistadores in the early sixteenth century, has been replayed in all its horrors. In the 1980s alone, the Guatemalan army is conservatively estimated to have murdered 20,000 Maya. Whole villages were wiped out, as at least 120,000 fled into Mexico and 500,000 became internal refugees. The MAYA OF GUATEMALA studies the Maya world in depth: the history, culture, beliefs and responses to the nonindigenous world. The author, Phillip Wearne, a journalist with long experience in Central America, looks at the Maya cultural resurgence of recent years – the product of both fearsome oppression and international geo-political changes of the 1980s. This is a story of indomitable will, a plea for solidarity and international support for a people who want to reclaim their identity as one of the ‘first peoples’ of the world. It is also a story of resistance and resurgence on behalf of the Maya who in the words of one internal refugee ‘want to come out of the mud, the cold, the shadows and into the sunshine’. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.
Return Of The Maya
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Author : Thomas Hoepker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Return Of The Maya written by Thomas Hoepker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
In this text, Thomas Hoepker, a Magnum photographer, documents the life of the Mayan Indians after Latin America's longest civil war. The book provides an account of an ancient culture which has survived centuries of oppression.
Children Of The Maya
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Author : Brent K. Ashabranner
language : en
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Release Date : 1986
Children Of The Maya written by Brent K. Ashabranner and has been published by Dodd Mead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Examines the plight of Mayans who have fled the violent political situation in Guatemala and settled in a community in southern Florida.
Time Among The Maya
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Author : Ronald Wright
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2000
Time Among The Maya written by Ronald Wright and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
The Guatemalan Genocide Of The Maya People
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Author : John A. Torres
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2017-12-15
The Guatemalan Genocide Of The Maya People written by John A. Torres and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Maya Empire became a thriving civilization between the third century and the seventh century CE, but by 900 CE war, drought, and disease wiped out most of its cities and the Mayan people were greatly reduced. Unfortunately, the greatest threat to their existence was yet to come, when the Guatemalan genocide would decimate those who remained in the 1970s and '80s. The facts of the Mayans' story will be intertwined with profiles of individuals and in-depth looks at related topics. Readers will learn how to help those faced with genocide and understand a history that could otherwise repeat itself.
The Maya Of Guatemala
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Author : Judith Sunderland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997*
The Maya Of Guatemala written by Judith Sunderland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997* with Indians of Central America categories.
An Inconstant Landscape
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Author : Thomas G. Garrison
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2019-01-15
An Inconstant Landscape written by Thomas G. Garrison and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Perú-Waka’, it existed as a small kingdom with powerful neighbors and serves today as a test-case of political debility and strength during the height of dynastic struggles among the Classic Maya. In this volume, contributors address the challenges faced by smaller polities on the peripheries of powerful kingdoms and ask how subordination was experienced and independent policy asserted. Leading experts provide cutting-edge analysis in varied topics and detailed discussion of the development of this major site and the region more broadly. The first half of the volume contains a historical narrative of the cultural sequence of El Zotz, tracing the changes in occupation and landscape use across time; the second half provides deep technical analyses of material evidence, including soils, ceramics, stone tools, and bone. The ever-changing, inconstant landscapes of peripheral kingdoms like El Zotz reveal much about their more dominant—and better known—neighbors. An Inconstant Landscape offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of this important but under-studied site, an essential context for the study of the Classic Maya in Guatemala, and a premier reference on the subject of peripheral kingdoms at the height of Maya civilization. Contributors: Timothy Beach, Nicholas Carter, Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Alyce de Carteret, William Delgado, Colin Doyle, James Doyle, Laura Gámez, Jose Luis Garrido López, Yeny Myshell Gutiérrez Castillo, Zachary Hruby, Melanie Kingsley, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Cassandra Mesick Braun, Sarah Newman, Rony Piedrasanta, Edwin Román, and Andrew K. Scherer
Maya Diaspora
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Author : James Loucky
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-16
Maya Diaspora written by James Loucky and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-16 with History categories.
Maya people have lived for thousands of years in the mountains and forests of Guatemala, but they lost control of their land, becoming serfs and refugees, when the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth century. Under the Spanish and the Guatemalan non-Indian elites, they suffered enforced poverty as a resident source of cheap labor for non-Maya projects, particularly agriculture production. Following the CIA-induced coup that toppled Guatemala's elected government in 1954, their misery was exacerbated by government accommodation to United States "interests," which promoted crops for export and reinforced the need for cheap and passive labor. This widespread poverty was endemic throughout northwestern Guatemala, where 80 percent of Maya children were chronically malnourished, and forced wide-scale migration to the Pacific coast. The self-help aid that flowed into the area in the 1960s and 1970s raised hopes for justice and equity that were brutally suppressed by Guatemala's military government. This military reprisal led to a massive diaspora of Maya throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America. This collection describes that process and the results. The chapters show the dangers and problems of the migratory/refugee process and the range of creative cultural adaptations that the Maya have developed. It provides the first comparative view of the formation and transformation of this new and expanding transnational population, presented from the standpoint of the migrants themselves as well as from a societal and international perspective. Together, the chapters furnish ethnographically grounded perspectives on the dynamic implications of uprooting and resettlement, social and psychological adjustment, long-term prospects for continued links to migration history from Guatemala, and the development of a sense of co-ethnicity with other indigenous people of Maya descent. As the Maya struggle to find their place in a more global society, their stories of quiet courage epitomize those of many other ethnic groups, migrants, and refugees today.
The Traveleer Guide To Yucatan And Guatemala
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Author : Loraine Carlson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Traveleer Guide To Yucatan And Guatemala written by Loraine Carlson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Guatemala categories.