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 ...
Forensics expert Temperance Brennan travels to Guatemala City to help investigators solve decades-old political murders, but when four new murders occur, Temperance realizes that someone in the Guatemalan political community might not want the mystery solved.
This is a translation of one of the most important texts in the native languages of the Americas, "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life". This edition features with newly deciphered hieroglyphics that show the deep roots of the "Popol Vuh" in Mayan culture.
This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive ...
"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 ...
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado. Features include: - Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get ...
"The Rough Guide to Guatemala" is the essential companion to this astonishing country with detailed coverage of all the main attractions - from the volcanoes and crater lakes to the culturally-rich capital of Guatemala City. The full-colour introduction highlights the spectacular natural beauty of the beaches and wild-life reserves with stunning ...
When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat -- she knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the children of war, you have to cut off pieces of your heart. But traveling home leads her to Guatemala, ...
Every year on November 2, the Day of the Dead, the villagers of Santiago Sacatepequez in Guatemala fly some of the biggest kites in the world in memory of their deceased loved ones. Juan has built a kite every year with his grandfather. Since his grandfather has died, Juan must now carry on the tradition alone. Beautiful photographs show Juan, ...
This study offers a glimpse into the magical and colourful world of the Maya. Unlike the usual academic renditions of primal myths, this book's presentation of the Maya's most important stories echoes the same creative way they are told today in the mountains, fields and town plazas of Central America. Dennis Trulock is the translator of the ...
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. ...
This debut novel about life among the illegal immigrants of East Los Angeles portrays the haunted worlds of Guillermo Longoria, a veteran of the Guatemalan death squads, and Antonio Bernal, a Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by Longoria. Both end up in Los Angeles and are brought together by a twist of fate even stranger than the forces ...
Goldman's first novel, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. This is the story of Roger Graetz, a half-Guatemalan boy raised in Boston, and Flor de Mayo, the Guatemalan orphan who is the family's maid. When Flor is murdered, Roger goes on a quest ...
This powerful memoir of an American who was adopted by a shaman and allowed to study the secrets of a Tzutujil Mayan village in deepest Guatemala "offers readers a privileged and rare glimpse into (the village's) complex and spiritually rich life" ("Rocky Mountain News"). 15,000.
"Cut Stones and Crossroads" and "On Fiji Island" are previous books by Ronald Wright, author of this book concerned with the Maya, who in the first millennium AD, created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization native to the Americas. Despite a mysterious collapse in the ninth century and Spanish invasion in the 16th century ...
Con la colaboracin de escritores como Carlos Monsivis, Pura Lpez Colom y Franoise Prus, el escritor Arturo Azuela coordina un estudio de la novela de Yez, respaldado en una minuciosa investigacin sobre la historia de sus ediciones y consecuentes variantes, la recepcin crtica, el contexto histrico literario, la potica narrativa y la historia ...
Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today.
The young son of a famous radical family takes to the roads of Latin America and comes to realize that a wave of radical change is transforming not only the places he visits, but his own take on life as well.
With the emotional power of the bestselling "Missing", this true story recounts the trials of Jennifer Harbury, an American woman who took on the United States government in an attempt to uncover the truth about the disappearance of her husband, Mayan guerrilla leader Everardo Bamaca Velasquez.
Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary QuichA(c) Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade. The Classic Mayan obsession with time has never been better known. Here, Barbara Tedlock redirects our ...
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 ...
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