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050	0	0	_aF1466.5 _b.S76 1993
082	0	0	_aLAS 320.9728 STO
100	1		_aDavid Stoll, 1952-
245	1	0	_aBetween two armies in the Ixil towns of Guatemala _c/ David Stoll
260			_aNew York _b: Columbia University Press _c, c1993.
300			_axviii, 383 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-367) and index.
520			_aThis book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a country notorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stoll's reinterpretation of the civil war in Guatemala focuses on the Ixil Mayas of the Western highlands. Based on their testimony, he attributes Ixil support for guerrillas in the early 1980s not to revolutionary impluses but to dual violence -- the coercive pressures of military confrontation which Ixils describe as "living between two fires." As a study of a peasant neutralism under crossfire, Between Two Armies questions whether confrontational forms of human rights organizing reflect the wishes of survivors trying to rebuild civil society, that is, political space to make their own decisions.
610	1		_aEjercito Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
650		0	_aGovernment _x--Resistance to _z--Guatemala
650			_aIxil Indians _x-Social conditions
650		0	_aLadino (Latin American people) _x--Social conditions
650		4	_aIndians of Central America _z-Guatemala _x-Social conditions
651		0	_aGuatemala _x--Politics and government _y--1945-1985
651			_aGuatemala _x-Politics and government _y-1985-
942			_cLAS
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