| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 8
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California series in public anthropology ; 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Paradise in Ashesis a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manzan anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemalatells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this villageits birth, destruction, and rebirthembodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. With great insight and compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. |
| Contents |
Highland homeland -- Settling in the promised land -- The war finds paradise -- Ashes, exodus and faded dreams -- A militarized village -- Reunification -- Treading between fear and hope. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
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Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala) |
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Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala) |
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Quiché Indians -- Crimes against -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá.
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Quiché Indians. |
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Guatemala. |
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Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá. |
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Quiché Indians -- Relocation -- Mexico.
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Mexico. |
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Massacres -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá.
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Massacres. |
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Political violence -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá.
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Political violence. |
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Civil-military relations -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá.
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Civil-military relations. |
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Return migration -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá.
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Return migration. |
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Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Social conditions.
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Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Manz, Beatriz, 1944- Paradise in ashes. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520240162 (DLC) 2003009015 (OCoLC)52216117 |
| ISBN |
9780520939325 (electronic book) |
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0520939328 (electronic book) |
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1417522704 (electronic book) |
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9781417522705 (electronic book) |
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0520240162 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520240162 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1597347949 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781597347945 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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