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Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows In Guatemala

Autor Judith Zur
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2019
This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on intensive fieldwork in the department of El Quich Guatemala, during 1988-1990. It examines the processes of fragmentation and realignment in a community undergoing rapid and violent change and relates local, social, cultural, and psychological phenomena to the
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367313838
ISBN-10: 0367313839
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. The Setting; 3. Gender Relations Before 'La Violencia'; 4. 'La Violencia'; 5. Village Patrols and Their Violence; 6. Women's Lives as Widows (Malca'nib); 7. Popular Memories of 'La Violencia'; 8. The Dead, the Disappeared, and Clandestine Graves; 9. K'iche' Theories of Causation and the Reconstruction of Meaning of 'La Violencia'; 10. Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of Danger; 11. The Exhumation and Beyond.

Notă biografică

Judith N. Zur is an independent scholar living in London.

Descriere

This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on intensive fieldwork in the department of El Quiche, Guatemala, during 1988-1990. . Zur combines a narrative, life-history approach with anthropological analysis, emphasizing the way people talk about and explain the violence.