Paradise in Ashes A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope

Name: Paradise in Ashes A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope
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ISBN: 9780520246751

ISBN-10: 0520246756

ISBN-13: 9780520246751

Edition: 2005

Authors: Beatriz Manz, Aryeh Neier

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Paradise in Ashes is 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 Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala--tells the story of the village of Santa Mariacute;a Tzejaacute;, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village--its birth, destruction, and rebirth--embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Beatriz Manz, born in Chile, is Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Refugees of a Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala (1988).



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction



The Highland Homeland



Setting in the Promised Land



The War Finds Paradise



Ashes, Exodus, and Faded Dreams



A Militarized Village



Reunification



Treading between Fear and Hope


Notes


Bibliography