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Massacres In The Jungle - Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982: Ricardo Falla Massacres In The Jungle - Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982
Ricardo Falla
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1975 and 1982 the Guatemalan military systematically and sadistically punished the campesino population for the activities of guerrilleros in their region. This account by Ricardo Falla, an anthropologist and Jesuit priest who is himself a Guatemalan exile, shows how the victims and their communities were destroyed and provides a detailed record of assassinations and disappearances. The book also bears witness to the work of Catholic priests who are dedicating themselves to improving the lives of the peoples of Central America.

Massacres In The Jungle - Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982 (Hardcover): Ricardo Falla Massacres In The Jungle - Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982 (Hardcover)
Ricardo Falla
R3,997 Discovery Miles 39 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1975 and 1982 the Guatemalan military systematically and sadistically punished the campesino population for the activities of guerrilleros in their region. This account by Ricardo Falla, an anthropologist and Jesuit priest who is himself a Guatemalan exile, shows how the victims and their communities were destroyed and provides a detailed record of assassinations and disappearances. The book also bears witness to the work of Catholic priests who are dedicating themselves to improving the lives of the peoples of Central America.

Quiche Rebelde - Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala (Paperback, Univ of Texas P): Ricardo Falla Quiche Rebelde - Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala (Paperback, Univ of Texas P)
Ricardo Falla; Translated by Phillip Berryman; Introduction by Richard Newbold Adams
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major changes wrought in their way of life by centuries of submission, the Maya have managed to regenerate, and thus maintain, their self-identity.

Among the major challenges they have faced has been the imposition of outside religions. Quiche Rebelde examines what happened when Accion Catolica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiche, to convert its inhabitants.

Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist, analyzes the movement's origins and why some people became part of it while others resisted. He shows how religion was used as another tool to readapt to the changing environment--natural, economic, political, and social. His work is the first major empirical study of how change occurred in a Maya community with no serious loss of Maya identity--and how the process of conversion is related to more general processes of cultural change that actually strengthen ethnic identity.

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