Guatemalan Journey

Name: Guatemalan Journey
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ISBN: 9780292708402

ISBN-10: 0292708408

ISBN-13: 9780292708402

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephen Connely Benz

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"Benz brings the reader face to face with the landscape, the people, and the institutions of Guatemala. I am convinced that his book will appeal to a general audience, to students entering the field of Latin American studies, and even to people planning a trip to that country. His insights into and observations of Guatemalan society are invariably accurate and engaging." Pablo Medina, author of Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Prologue



Guatemala CityArrival


The Capital for Tourists


Walking around Town


Rainy Season in the Slums


The City Dump


Along the Railroad Tracks


A GAM Rally


Authority in Guatemala


MaquilasEl Churrasco


Ladino Attitudes


Soccer in Guatemala


Street Children


Buying a Scooter


Bureaucracy Revisited


The Post Office"" Ffjase""Religion


Restaurants


USAID


The Gringo Presence



Roads and Texts


Antigua


Lake Atitl_n


Chichicastenango


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