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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
by Francisco Goldman  Publisher Comments Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and...
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Elisa Burgos Debray Synopsis Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father....
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Bitter Fruit -revised and Expanded ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Stephen Schlesinger Publisher Comments Bitter Fruitis a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the...
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Silence on the Mountain : Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (02 Edition)
by Daniel Wilkinson Publisher Comments new in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of...
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The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth
by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments The searing memoir of an American nun, her torture in Guatemala, her campaign to reveal the truth, and her struggle to heal. In 1989, while working as a missionary in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline, was abducted by security...
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Time & the Highland Maya Rev Edition
by Barbara Tedlock Synopsis Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quich Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade. The Classic Mayan...
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Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (Ethnography of Political Violence)
by Kristi Anne Stlen Publisher Comments In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army unleashed a scorchedearth campaign against civilians suspected of supporting antigovernment guerrillas. Faced with violent repression, indigenous people found various ways to survive. Some joined the guerilla ranks,...
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Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (Penn State Press)
by Matthew Restall Publisher Comments After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony--with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story...
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Blindfold's Eyes
by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments The searing memoir of an American nun abducted and tortured in Guatemala, Whose ongoing search for healing and justice shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear. Even more timely now for its insights into the aftermath of...
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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
by David Stoll Publisher Comments This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical...
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To Save Her Life: Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala
by Dan Saxon Publisher Comments Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence and struggle for social justice and democracy, and U.S...
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Secret History : CiaÜS Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (2ND 07 Edition)
by Nick Cullather Publisher Comments The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of “regime change” that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a...
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Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis
by Robert M Carmack Synopsis "This important and disturbing volume provides ten case histories of recent institutionalized violence and discrimination against the Maya-speaking peoples of Guatemala. The authors... reconstruct events by interpreting oral history, comparing...
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Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country
by Walter Randol Adams Synopsis Creating more enlightened health care for traditional cultures...
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Health Impacts of Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala (Directions in Development)
by Kulsum Ahmed Synopsis Recognition of the problem of "indoor air pollution" (IAP) and its deleterious effects on health is growing worldwide as efforts increase to understand and articulate the complex health-air pollution linkages. Recent WHO estimates indicate that indoor...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #08: Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope
by Beatriz Manz Publisher Comments Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan...
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Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced
by June Carolyn Erlick Publisher Comments On a quiet October evening in 1980, Guatemalan journalist Irma Flaquer, returning to her downtown apartment after a visit with her four-year-old grandson, was dragged from her car, never to be seen again. Founder of the first Guatemalan Human Rights...
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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970
by David Jr Carey Synopsis Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American...
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The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala
by Frank M Afflitto Publisher Comments The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular...
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Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Victor D Montejo Publisher Comments When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the discovery of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in...
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