Violent memories : Mayan war widows in Guatemala

Judith N. Zur

This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on intensive fieldwork in the department of El Quiche, Guatemala, during 1988--1990. It examines the processes of fragmentation and realignment in a community undergoing rapid and violent change and relates local, social, cultural, and psychological phenomena to the impact of the war on widows' lives.Zur combines a narrative, life-history approach with anthropological analysis, emphasizing the way people talk about and explain the violence. She describes the survival strategies of widows and their attempts to reconstruct their lives, both on a physical level and in terms of meaning, and finds that "remembering" is not simply the automatic engagement of the past within the present, but a process that allows widows to discover new possibilities for action and for reshaping their own positions in society.

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[目次]

  • * Introduction * The Setting * Gender Relations Before La Violencia * La Violencia * Village Patrols and Their Violence * Womens Lives as Widows (Malcanib) * Popular Memories of La Violencia * The Dead, The Disappeared, and Clandestine Graves * Kich Theories of Causation and the Reconstruction of Meaning of La Violencia * Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of Danger * The Exhumation and Beyond

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書名 Violent memories : Mayan war widows in Guatemala
著作者等 Zur Judith
Zur Judith N.
出版元 Westview Press
刊行年月 1998
版表示 New ed
ページ数 338 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0813338972
0813327997
NCID BA36934927
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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