Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala

by Linda Green

Book Overview

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designed to not only defeat a left-wing, revolutionary insurgency but also destroy Mayan communities and culture. The Mayan Indians in the western highlands were labeled by the government as revolutionary sympathizers, and many Mayan women lost husbands, sons, and other family members who were brutally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231100337
• ISBN13: 9780231100335
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher