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  • Women Who Live Evil Lives

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    pocket, 2002, Engelska, ISBN 9780292725492

    Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social

  • Violent Memories

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    pocket, 2001, Engelska, ISBN 9780813338972

    This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on intensive fieldwork in the department of El Quiché, Guatemala, during 1988-1990. It

  • Wings of Resistance

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    pocket, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9780615551548

    Every year in the highlands of Guatemala, the town of Sumpango celebrates Day of the Dead by flying kites. The kites are massive, the largest measuring 45 feet in diameter. Smaller

  • War by Other Means

    pocket, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9780822355090

    Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war,

  • Trout Belly Up

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    pocket, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9781916465619

    In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time

  • To Save Her Life

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    pocket, 2007, Engelska, ISBN 9780520252455

    Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty

  • Tikal

    pocket, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9781108796781

    The primary theoretical question addressed in this book focuses on the lingering concern of how the ancient Maya in the northern Petén Basin were able to sustain large populations

  • The Weight of Obesity

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    pocket, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780520286825

    A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America

  • The Quiet Revolutionaries

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    pocket, 2007, Engelska, ISBN 9780292716773

    The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the

  • The Order of Days

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    pocket, 2012, Engelska, ISBN 9780385527279

    The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation