TY  - GEN
T1  - Paradise in ashes : a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope
T2  - California series in public anthropology ;
A1  - Manz, Beatriz, 1944-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm55857968
AB  - Paradise in Ashesis 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 Manzan anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemalatells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this villageits birth, destruction, and rebirthembodies 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 María Tzejá, 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 María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives.
OP  - 311
CN  - F1465.2.Q5 M36 2004eb
SN  - 9780520939325
SN  - 0520939328
SN  - 1417522704
SN  - 9781417522705
SN  - 1597347949
SN  - 9781597347945
SN  - 0520240162
SN  - 9780520240162
SN  - 0520246756
SN  - 9780520246751
KW  - Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
KW  - Quiché Indians : Crimes against : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Quiché Indians : Relocation : Mexico.
KW  - Massacres : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Political violence : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Civil-military relations : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Return migration : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) : Social conditions.
KW  - Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) : Politics and government.
KW  - Quiché (Indiens), Crimes contre les : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá
KW  - Quiché : Relogement : Mexique.
KW  - Violence politique : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Migration de retour : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) : Administration.
KW  - Quiché : Crimes contre : Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - Massacres
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Return migration
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Guatemala : Santa María Tzejá
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Bürgerkrieg
KW  - Landbevölkerung
KW  - Massaker
KW  - Menschenrechtsverletzung
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - Quiché (Volk)
KW  - Geschichte 1970-1990.
KW  - Geschichte 1982.
ER  -