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Friday, February 1, 2013

The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)

The Blood of Guatemala
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)
Greg Grandin (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars(3)

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Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades.
Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango, Grandin shows how their efforts to maintain authority over the indigenous population and secure political power in relation to non-Indians played a crucial role in the formation of the Guatemalan nation. To explore the close connection between nationalism, state power, ethnic identity, and political violence, Grandin draws on sources as diverse as photographs, public rituals, oral testimony, literature, and a collection of previously untapped documents written during the nineteenth century. He explains how the cultural anxiety brought about by Guatemala’s transition to coffee capitalism during this period led Mayan patriarchs to develop understandings of race and nation that were contrary to Ladino notions of assimilation and progress. This alternative national vision, however, could not take hold in a country plagued by class and ethnic divisions. In the years prior to the 1954 coup, class conflict became impossible to contain as the elites violently opposed land claims made by indigenous peasants.
This “history of power” reconsiders the way scholars understand the history of Guatemala and will be relevant to those studying nation building and indigenous communities across Latin America.

  • Rank: #285782 in Books
  • Published on: 2000-03-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.06" w x 6.14" l, 1.39 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 368 pages

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas
A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
Ernest Preston Edwards (Author), Edward Murrell Butler (Illustrator)
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Guatemala

More than a thousand species of birds occur in Mexico and in the adjacent countries of Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Of these birds, a unique mixture of temperate-zone and tropical species, less than half are found in the United States, and many cross the border only a short distance into the southwestern states.

This practical field guide contains detailed annotations for easy identification of all of Mexico's regular species. The descriptions include the English, Spanish, and Latin names; a general range statement for each bird, along with its specific occurrences in the region; its typical habitat(s) and abundance; and its physical characteristics, including size and plumage. Excellent color plates with drawings of over 850 species make this the most fully illustrated guide to the region.

Published by the author in 1972 and 1989, this convenient take-along guide is now totally revised, updated, and re-designed to provide handy assistance and enjoyment to professional ornithologists and amateur birders alike.

  • Rank: #556264 in Books
  • Published on: 1998
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.84" h x .83" w x 5.83" l, 1.00 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 285 pages

Monday, January 28, 2013

The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

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The First Maya Civilization
The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period
by Francisco Estrada-Belli
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When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.

  • Rank: #230489 in Books
  • Published on: 2010-12-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.21" h x .39" w x 6.14" l, .75 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology)

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Paradise in Ashes
Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology)
by Beatriz Manz, Aryeh Neier
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H)

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Bitter Fruit
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H)
by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio
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Guatemala

Bitter Fruit is 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 relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

  • Rank: #29072 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-12-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.94" h x .94" w x 7.09" l, 1.39 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 358 pages

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

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Shattered Hope
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
by Piero Gleijeses
4.5 out of 5 stars(6)

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The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

  • Rank: #75043 in Books
  • Published on: 1992-07-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.13" h x 1.18" w x 6.30" l, 1.48 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 464 pages

Sunday, January 13, 2013

A Field Guide to Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador (Peterson Field Guides)

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A Field Guide to Mexican Birds
A Field Guide to Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador (Peterson Field Guides)
by Roger Tory Peterson
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Guatemala

With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.

  • Rank: #557353 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.06" h x .87" w x 4.49" l, 1.12 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 320 pages

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village

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Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village
by Victor Montejo, Victor Perera
4.8 out of 5 stars(8)

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TESTIMONY: DEATH OF A GUATEMALAN VILLAGE is an eyewitness account by a Guatemalan primary school teacher detailing one instance of violent conflict between the indigenous Maya people and the army. An accidental clash between the village's "civil patrol" and a Guatemalan army troop leads to the execution or imprisonment of many villagers. Written in clear, direct prose, this account reads like an adventure story while conveying an historical reality.

  • Rank: #78484 in Books
  • Published on: 1995-07-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .40" h x 5.35" w x 8.44" l, .36 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 113 pages

Friday, January 11, 2013

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright
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This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman.

Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. The anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, herself a Latin American woman, conducted a series of interviews with Rigoberta Menchu. The result is a book unique in contemporary literature which records the detail of everyday Indian life. Rigoberta's gift for striking expression vividly conveys both the religious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.

  • Rank: #77291 in Books
  • Published on: 1984-06
  • Original language: Spanish
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.21" h x .59" w x 6.14" l, 1.01 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 252 pages

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

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Silence on the Mountain
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by Daniel Wilkinson
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Guatemala

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 whom died (or were “disappeared”) at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation’s manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery whose solution requires Wilkinson to dig up the largely unwritten history of the country’s recent civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement that was derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and to the origins of a plantation system that put Guatemala’s Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets.

Decades of terror-inspired fear have led the Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete it verges on collective amnesia. The author’s great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories—dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking—that we are shown the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that has relevance not only to Guatemala but also to countless places around the world where terror has been used as a political tool.
  • Rank: #52500 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-08-us.html
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.06" h x .94" w x 6.06" l, 1.19 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 392 pages

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

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Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala
by Victoria Sanford
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Guatemala

Between the late 1970s and the late 1980s, Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme violence in a genocidal campaign against the Maya, which becameknown as "La Violencia." More than 600 massacres occurred, one and a half million people were displaced, and more than 200,000 civilians were murdered, most of them Maya. Buried Secrets brings these chilling statistics to life as it chronicles the journey of Maya survivors seeking truth, justice, and community healing, and demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya. The book is based on exhaustive research, including more than 400 testimonies from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla combatants, and government officials. Buried Secrets traces truth-telling and political change from isolated Maya villages to national political events, and provides a unique look into the experiences of Maya survivors as they struggle to rebuild their communities and lives.

  • Rank: #208165 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-08-21
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .88" h x 5.96" w x 9.02" l, 1.18 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 352 pages

Monday, January 7, 2013

Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)

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Tecpan Guatemala
Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)
by Edward F Fischer, Carol Hendrickson
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest

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Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest
by Mary Jo McConahay
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In Maya Roads, McConahay draws upon her three decades of traveling and living in Central America's remote landscapes to create a fascinating chronicle of the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the Central American rainforest, the cradle of Maya civilization. Captivated by the magnificence and mystery of the jungle, the author brings to life the intense beauty, the fantastic locales, the ancient ruins, and the horrific violence. She witnesses archaeological discoveries, the transformation of the Lacandon people, the Zapatista indigenous uprising in Mexico, increased drug trafficking, and assists in the uncovering of a war crime. Over the decades, McConahay has witnessed great changes in the region, and this is a unique tale of a woman's adventure and the adaptation and resolve of a people.

  • Rank: #403223 in Books
  • Published on: 2011-08-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.02" h x .71" w x 6.06" l, .97 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 272 pages

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)

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Bitter Fruit
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)
by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio
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Bitter Fruit is 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 relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

  • Rank: #33250 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-12-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.94" h x .94" w x 7.09" l, 1.39 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 358 pages

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Guatemala ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Guatemala (Country ABCs)

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Guatemala ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Guatemala (Country ABCs)
by Aboff, Marcie, Trover, Zachary
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An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Guatemala.

  • Rank: #81835 in Books
  • Brand: COUGHLAN PUBLISHING/CAPSTONE PUB
  • Published on: 2006-08-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .10" h x 10.80" w x 9.15" l, .34 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 32 pages

Friday, January 4, 2013

The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

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The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby

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This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala’s history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that cannot be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems, songs, plays, jokes, novels, short stories, recipes, art, and photographs that capture the diversity of everyday life in Guatemala. The editors introduce all of the selections, from the first piece, an excerpt from the Popol Vuh, a mid-sixteenth-century text believed to be the single most important source documenting pre-Hispanic Maya culture, through the final selections, which explore contemporary Guatemala in relation to neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and the dynamics of migration to the United States and of immigrant life. Many pieces were originally published in Spanish, and most of those appear in English for the first time.

  • Rank: #88870 in Books
  • Published on: 2011-10-31
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.25" h x 5.98" w x 1.69" l, 2.05 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 688 pages

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Guatemala ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Guatemala (Country Abcs)

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Guatemala ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Guatemala (Country Abcs)
by Aboff, Marcie, Trover, Zachary
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An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Guatemala.

  • Rank: #116276 in Books
  • Brand: COUGHLAN PUBLISHING/CAPSTONE PUB
  • Published on: 2003-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .10" h x 10.80" w x 9.15" l, .34 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 32 pages