Fear As a Way of Life: Mayan Windows in Rural Guatemala: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala - Brossura

Green, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231100337 ISBN 13: 9780231100335

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designed to not only defeat a left-wing, revolutionary insurgency but also destroy Mayan communities and culture. The Mayan Indians in the western highlands were labeled by the government as revolutionary sympathizers, and many Mayan women lost husbands, sons, and other family members who were brutally murdered or who simply "disappeared."

Based on years of field research conducted in the rural highlands, Fear as a Way of Life traces the intricate links between the recent political violence and repression and the long-term systemic violence connected with class inequalities and gender and ethnic oppression--the violence of everyday life.

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L'autore:

Linda Green is assistant professor of anthropology and international and public affairs at Columbia University.

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Book by Green Linda

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0231100337
• ISBN 13: 9780231100335
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 229