Paradise in ashes : a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope
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Paradise in ashes : a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope
（California series in public anthropology, 8）
University of California Press, 2005, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index
"First paperback printing 2005"--T.p. verso of paperback edition
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Paradise in Ashes is 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 Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala--tells the story of the village of Santa Maria Tzeja, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village--its birth, destruction, and rebirth--embodies 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 Maria Tzeja, 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 Maria Tzeja, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives.
目次
List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Maps Introduction Chapter 1. The Highland Homeland Chapter 2. Settling in the Promised Land Chapter 3. The War Finds Paradise Chapter 4. Ashes, Exodus, and Faded Dreams Chapter 5. A Militarized Village Chapter 6. Reunification Chapter 7. Treading between Fear and Hope Notes Bibliography Index
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