Guatemalan Journey /

Guatemalan Journey / / Stephen Connely Benz.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Benz, Stephen Connely,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Los Encuentros
  • Prologue
  • PART ONE. GUATEMALA CITY
  • Arrival
  • The Capital for Tourists
  • Walking around Town
  • Rainy Season in the Slums
  • The City Dump
  • Along the Railroad Tracks
  • A GAM Rally
  • Authority in Guatemala
  • Maquilas
  • El Churrasco
  • Ladino Attitudes
  • Soccer in Guatemala
  • Street Children
  • Buying a Scooter
  • Bureaucracy Revisited
  • The Post Office
  • "Fijase"
  • Religion
  • Restaurants
  • USAID
  • The Gringo Presence
  • PART TWO ROADS AND TEXTS
  • Antigua
  • Lake Atitlán
  • Chichicastenango
  • Utatlán
  • The Ixil Triangle
  • The Road to El Estor
  • The Oriente
  • The Last Road
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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