Guatemala

First published in 1999. Guatemalan immigration is part of a trend where more women in an increasing number of countries than men participate in transnational migration. This …

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

In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Mench, published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography-I, Rigoberta …

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 …

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, …

One of the most important Postclassic cities, Utatlan, in highland Guatemala, was excavated more than three decades ago. However, the data amassed by archaeologists have not been …

"e;[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general."e;-Social Anthropology Since 1987, when …

Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life …

«Perus beste forfatter. En av verdens beste.» The New Yorker. Guatemala, 1954. Den demokratisk anlagte Jacobo Árbenz' regjering veltes i et militærkupp. Bak kuppet står lokale …

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 …