Guatemalan Journey / / Stephen Connely Benz.
Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Los Encuentros -- |t Prologue -- |t PART ONE. GUATEMALA CITY -- |t Arrival -- |t The Capital for Tourists -- |t Walking around Town -- |t Rainy Season in the Slums -- |t The City Dump -- |t Along the Railroad Tracks -- |t A GAM Rally -- |t Authority in Guatemala -- |t Maquilas -- |t El Churrasco -- |t Ladino Attitudes -- |t Soccer in Guatemala -- |t Street Children -- |t Buying a Scooter -- |t Bureaucracy Revisited -- |t The Post Office -- |t "Fijase" -- |t Religion -- |t Restaurants -- |t USAID -- |t The Gringo Presence -- |t PART TWO ROADS AND TEXTS -- |t Antigua -- |t Lake Atitlán -- |t Chichicastenango -- |t Utatlán -- |t The Ixil Triangle -- |t The Road to El Estor -- |t The Oriente -- |t The Last Road -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores the Guatemala that casual travelers miss, using his encounters with ordinary Guatemalans at the mall, on the streets, at soccer games, and even at the funeral of massacre victims to illuminate the social reality of Guatemala today. The book opens with an extended section on the capital, Guatemala City, and then moves out to the more remote parts of the country where the Guatemalan Indians predominate. Benz offers us a series of intelligent and sometimes humorous perspectives on Guatemala's political history and the role of the military, the country's environmental degradation, the influence of foreign missionaries, and especially the impact of the United States on Guatemala, from governmental programs to fast food franchises. | ||
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