Maya after War : : Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala / / Jennifer L. Burrell.

Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (235 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. War and La Violencia in Todos Santos: Accounting for the Past
  • 2. Localities in Conflict: Spaces and the Politics of Mapmaking
  • 3. Histories and Silences
  • 4. Reimagining Fiesta: Migration, Culture and Neoliberalism
  • 5. After Lynching
  • 6. Life and Death of a Rural Marero: Generations in Conflict
  • Epilogue: Waiting after War
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index