Abigail E Adams: 3 books

Book cover of Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Harvest of Violence Revisited

by David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
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Faces of Resistance

Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

by S. Ashley Kistler, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Allen J. Christenson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power.   In the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community...
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Imaniman

Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands

by ire'ne lara silva, Rodney Gomez, Daniel E. Solís y Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
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