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Book Los Todos Santeros

Download or read book Los Todos Santeros written by Hans Namuth and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Namuth visited Todos Santos, a small village in northern Guatemala, in the late 1940s. His fascination with the isolated mountain community led him to return in 1987 and continue his photographic documentation of the Maya culture which had survived despite the influence of western civilization and the civil war in Guatemala, during which political violence to control insurrection has been turned against the civilian population.

Book Hablan los santeros

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  • Author : Tabaré Güerere Añez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789802308231
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Hablan los santeros written by Tabaré Güerere Añez and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maya after War

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Burrell
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 0292745672
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Maya after War written by Jennifer L. Burrell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous peasant population, the aftermath of war and genocide resonates with a long-standing tension between state techniques of governance and ancient community-level power structures that incorporated concepts of kinship, gender, and generation. Showing the ways in which these complex histories are interlinked with wartime and enduring family/class conflicts, Maya after War provides a nuanced account of a unique transitional postwar situation, including the complex influence of neoliberal intervention. Drawing on ethnographic field research over a twenty-year period, Jennifer L. Burrell explores the after-war period in a locale where community struggles span culture, identity, and history. Investigating a range of tensions from the local to the international, Burrell employs unique methodologies, including mapmaking, history workshops, and an informal translation of a historic ethnography, to analyze the role of conflict in animating what matters to Todosanteros in their everyday lives and how the residents negotiate power. Examining the community-based divisions alongside national postwar contexts, Maya after War considers the aura of hope that surrounded the signing of the peace accords, and the subsequent doubt and waiting that have fueled unrest, encompassing generational conflicts. This study is a rich analysis of the multifaceted forces at work in the quest for peace, in Guatemala and beyond.

Book Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global  Re Production of Collective Violence

Download or read book Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global Re Production of Collective Violence written by Gavin Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violence alongside other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex, tiered causations based in contestations regarding ideas and provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible spaces for mitigation against their viral spread. This volume will be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the anthropology and sociology of violence, post-conflict violence, and peace studies.

Book Hablan los santeros

Download or read book Hablan los santeros written by Tabaré Güerere A. and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Beauty That Hurts

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  • Author : W. George Lovell
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 029279293X
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book A Beauty That Hurts written by W. George Lovell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a 1996 peace accord brought a formal end to a conflict that had lasted for thirty-six years, Guatemala's violent past continues to scar its troubled present and seems destined to haunt its uncertain future. George Lovell brings to this revised and expanded edition of A Beauty That Hurts decades of fieldwork throughout Guatemala, as well as archival research. He locates the roots of conflict in geographies of inequality that arose during colonial times and were exacerbated by the drive to develop Guatemala's resources in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The lines of confrontation were entrenched after a decade of socioeconomic reform between 1944 and 1954 saw modernizing initiatives undone by a military coup backed by U.S. interests and the CIA. A United Nations Truth Commission has established that civil war in Guatemala claimed the lives of more that 200,000 people, the vast majority of them indigenous Mayas. Lovell weaves documentation about what happened to Mayas in particular during the war years with accounts of their difficult personal situations. Meanwhile, an intransigent elite and a powerful military continue to benefit from the inequalities that triggered armed insurrection in the first place. Weak and corrupt civilian governments fail to impose the rule of law, thus ensuring that Guatemala remains an embattled country where postwar violence and drug-related crime undermine any semblance of orderly, peaceful life.

Book The Rough Guide to Guatemala

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Guatemala written by Iain Stewart and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed wilderness treks, volcano climbs, and tours of the Mayan ruins are profiled in this lively guide of Guatemala. 38 maps. 24-page full-color section.

Book Entre santos y santeros

Download or read book Entre santos y santeros written by Andrea García Molina and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-12-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book The Photographic Journal

Download or read book The Photographic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1853- include the transactions of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

Book Dioses y Orishas Del Panteon de Yoruba

Download or read book Dioses y Orishas Del Panteon de Yoruba written by McR El Pensador and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Santoral Yoruba, el principio de la mitología de la religión, el comienzo y el cimiento de la historia de este legado religioso. La misma leyenda, que su curso religioso se expande como la semilla, que del fruto se recoge el extracto de la fe de nuestros ancestros viviendo en un presente. Tambores que en su repicar no han dejado de sonar la melodía que marca la historia dentro de esta religión del Santoral Yoruba. Las Deidades, Dioses y Orishas, principio de fe, que une corazones bajo el repicar de los tambores africanos. Costumbres de un pueblo de fe que data de la misma historia y la misma mitología de esta religión del Panteón Yoruba que en historia viviente no muere, ecos los tambores, ritos y ceremonias. Por lo tanto, el contenido de lo que ustedes encontraran en este libro y en otros de la religión del Santo y el Palo, está apto para un verdadero aprendizaje de acuerdo a los principios de esta religión del Santoral Yoruba.

Book I Wanna Take Me a Picture

Download or read book I Wanna Take Me a Picture written by Wendy Ewald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for parents and teachers, I Wanna Take Me a Picture is an accessible and practical guide to getting children involved in photography. Through a series of lessons-from self-portraiture to representing their dreams-it teaches everything a beginner needs to know: how to compose a picture, set up a darkroom, and develop film.

Book La Lupe  Reina Pose  Da

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  • Author : Israel Matos
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012-07
  • ISBN : 146332846X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book La Lupe Reina Pose Da written by Israel Matos and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, popularmente conocida como La Lupe, o La Yiyiyi, lleno toda una época con su música, una mujer de un extraordinario valor, sin embargo, aun su recuerdo esta cubierto como con un velo, donde lo que nos llegan son historias, que muchas veces rayan en lo inverosímil o meras exageraciones. Pero la vida de Lupe fue así, siempre rodeada de hechos como salidos de la leyenda. Desde las polvorientas calles de San Pedrito, en el Oriente de Cuba, se trillo una carrera como interprete de música popular, hizo temblar la revolución de Fidel Castro, llego a los Estados Unidos, donde se situó en el trono incuestionable de La Reina de la Canción Latina. En esta obra, el autor desvela la vida de la artista como nunca nadie antes lo había hecho, con una narrativa dramática, emotiva, triste y perturbadora, llevando al lector a los mas oscuros rincones de la vida de la diva, así como también a los mas cándidos, leales, humanos y amorosos sentimientos de los que siempre fue dueña La Lupe. La Lupe, una Reina Poseída, revela la verdadera vida de Lupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, sin leyendas, sin tapujos. Conozca sus momentos de triunfos, así como los momentos amargos, de dolor miseria y abandono por los que tuvo que pasar esta extraordinaria mujer. Véalos pasar frente a sus ojos como una película, la cual nadie aun ha sido espectador.

Book Our Lady of the Exile

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  • Author : Thomas A. Tweed
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1997-10-02
  • ISBN : 0195344499
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Our Lady of the Exile written by Thomas A. Tweed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims are diverse, and so are the motives that bring them. At the same time, author Thomas A. Tweed argues, Cuban devotees of the national patroness share a great deal. Most come to pray for their homeland and to recreate bonds with other Cubans, on the island and in the diaspora. The shrine is a place where they come to make sense of themselves as an exiled people. The religious symbols there link the past and present and bridge the homeland and the new land. Through rituals and artifacts at the shrine, Tweed suggests, the Cuban diaspora "imaginatively constructs its collective identity and transports itself to the Cuba of memory and desire." While the book focuses on Cuban exiles in Miami, it moves beyond case study as it explores larger issues concerning religion, identity, and place. How do migrants relate to heir homeland? How do they understand themselves after they have been displaced? What role does religion play among these diasporic groups? Building on this study of one exiled group, Tweed proposes a theory of diasporic religion that promises to illuminate the experiences of other groups that have been displaced from their native land. As the first book-length analysis of Cuban-American Catholicism, Tweed's book will be an invaluable resource to scholars and students of not only Religious Studies, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, but also those who study cultural anthropology, human geography, and Latin American history.

Book Photographic Art Market

Download or read book Photographic Art Market written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Que Me La Hace Me La Paga

Download or read book El Que Me La Hace Me La Paga written by Domingo B. Lage and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El sueño de un exiliado cubano, todo comienzo un 1 de Abril de 1980, tome la dedición de salir de mi país por medio de una embajada, con la intención de llegar a estados unidos, sabiendo que para lo que yo quería lograr, tenía que salir mi tierra adorada Cuba, tal vez en Miami sería mucho más fácil, siempre desde muy niño soñé y admire a los grandes escritores sabios, como ha mi ídolo José Maria Vargas Vila y mi guía espiritual literario, como varios espiritistas y tatas lo han nombrado como el escribano, & otros tantos mas. Y soñaba con que algún día podría ser como uno de ellos, siguiendo paso a paso cada uno de los consejos de mis maestros, mi padrino y abuelo. Que también fueron como mis padres siendo ellos unos grandes sabios en la religión, que lograría mis sueños. Pues siempre dedique con cariño y respeto todos lo que me decían así me forcé a estudiar sin olvidarme de la gran importancia que ellos eran para mí, no la ambición nunca de ser mejor que ellos, porque aquí es donde está el detalle, pero si le seguiría sus pasos. Que nunca nos podemos olvidar que cada maestro guarda en su marga una carta de triunfo, los maestros te enseñan de eso estoy seguro que el ultimo brinco no te lo enseñaran jamás. Como todos sabemos lo que pasa un extranjero al llegar a este país, más aun cuando uno es de la piel oscura, que el egoísmo el racismo y la envidia esta en primeras planas de esas personas ignorantes que no conocen la filosofía, recuerdo cuando era un adolescente, leí un escrito de mi gran maestro espiritual (el viejo Vila) que dijo solo aquellos ignorantes desconocen que solamente existe una raza y es la raza humana. Ignorantes y falta de ética humana. Ndula congo Monikiamboto. Entuala Kongo.

Book Santos and Santeros

Download or read book Santos and Santeros written by Thomas A. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: