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Rigoberta Menchu is a living legend, a young woman who said that
her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was
"the story of all poor Guatemalans." By turning herself into an
everywoman, she became a powerful symbol for 500 years of
indigenous resistance to colonialism. Her testimony, I, Rigoberta
Menchu, denounced
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Rigoberta Menchu is a living legend, a young woman who said that
her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was
"the story of all poor Guatemalans." By turning herself into an
everywoman, she became a powerful symbol for 500 years of
indigenous resistance to colonialism. Her testimony, "I, Rigoberta
Menchu," denounced atrocities by the Guatemalan army and propelled
her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. But her story was not the
eyewitness account that she claimed. In this hotly debated book,
key points of which have been corroborated by the "New York Times,"
David Stoll compares a cult text with local testimony from
Rigoberta Menchu's hometown. His reconstruction of her story goes
to the heart of debates over political correctness and identity
politics and provides a dramatic illustration of the rebirth of the
sacred in the postmodern academy.This expanded edition includes a
new foreword from Elizabeth Burgos, the editor of "I, Rigoberta
Menchu," as well as a new afterword from Stoll, who discusses
Rigoberta Menchu's recent bid for the Guatemalan presidency and
addresses the many controversies and debates that have arisen since
the book was first published.
Challenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that
the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's did
so because they were caught in the crossfire between the guerillas
and the army, not because revolutionary violence expressed
community aspirations.
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Challenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues
that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's
did so because they were caught in the crossfire between the
guerillas and the army, not because revolutionary violence
expressed community aspirations.
Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the
United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of
migrants, moneylenders, and swindlers in the Guatemalan highlands,
one of the locales that, collectively, are sending millions of
Latin Americans north in search of higher wages. As an
anthropologist, Stoll has witnessed the Ixil Mayas of Nebaj grow in
numbers, run out of land, and struggle to find employment. Aid
agencies have provided microcredits to turn the Nebajenses into
entrepreneurs, but credit alone cannot boost productivity in
crowded mountain valleys, which is why many recipients have
invested the loans in smuggling themselves to the United States.
Back home, their remittances have inflated the price of land so
high that only migrants can afford to buy it. Thus, more Nebajenses
have felt obliged to borrow the large sums needed to go north. So
many have done so that, even before the Great Recession hit the
U.S. in 2008, many were unable to find enough work to pay back
their loans, triggering a financial crash back home. Now migrants
and their families are losing the land and homes they have pledged
as collateral. Chain migration, moneylending, and large families,
Stoll proposes, have turned into pyramid schemes in which the poor
transfer risk and loss to their near and dear.
The diverse case studies in this volume explore facets of the
Protestant movement in Central and South America, such as the role
of women, the connection with Catholic mysticism, the politics of
supposedly conservative evangelical misssionaries, and the
implications for existing patterns of authority.
Protestants are making phenomenal gains in Latin America. This is
the first general account of the evangelical challenge to Catholic
predominance, with special attention to the collision with
liberation theology in Central America. David Stoll reinterprets
the "invasion of the sects" as an evangelical awakening, part of a
wider religious reformation which could redefine the basis of Latin
American politics.
"Anthropology and the Politics of Representation" examines the
inherently problematic nature of representation and description of
living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in
anthropological work as a whole. In "Anthropology and the Politics
of Representation" volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings
together a group of international scholars who, through their
fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political,
and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus
on such topics as ethnography, anthropologists' engagement in
identity politics, representational practices, the contexts of
anthropological research and work, and the effects of personal
choices regarding self-involvement in local causes that may extend
beyond purely ethnographic goals.
Such reflections raise a number of ethnographic questions: What
are ethnographic goals? Who sets the agenda for ethnographic
writing? How does fieldwork change the anthropologist's identity?
Do ethnography and ethnographers have an impact on local lives and
self-representation? How do anthropologists balance longheld
respect for cultural diversity with advocacy for local people? How
does an author choose what to say and write, and what not to
disclose? Should anthropologists support causes that may require
going against their informed knowledge of local lives?
Contributors
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz / Beth A. Conklin
/ Les W. Field / Katie Glaskin / Frederic W.
Gleach / Tracey Heatherington / June C.
Nash / Bernard C. Perley / Vilma Santiago-
Irizarry / Timothy J. Smith / Sergey
Sokolovskiy / David Stoll / Gabriela Vargas-
Cetina / Thomas M. Wilson
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