Title:
Voices from exile : violence and survival in modern Maya history / Victor Montejo.
Author:
Montejo, Victor, 1951-
Publication Information:
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.
Call Number:
F1434.2 .W37 M65 1999
Electronic Access:
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b7m8-aa
ISBN:
9780806131719
9780806139852
Physical Description:
xiv, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The anthropologist and the other -- Toward a Maya history of Guatemala -- The advent of violence in the Kuchumatan Highlands -- Military control of the highlands -- One man's testimony -- The journey to Mexico -- Life in the refugee camps -- Strategies of cultural survival -- Ethnic relations and cultural revival in the refugee camps -- Songs and poetry from the camps -- Returning home -- From the present to the future.
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