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082	0	0	_aLAS 972.8105 MAN
100	1		_aManz, Beatriz _d(, 1944-)
245	1	0	_aParadise in ashes _b: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope _c/ Beatriz Manz ; with a foreword by Aryeh Neier.
260			_aBerkeley _b: University of California Press _c, 2005, c2004.
300			_axix, 311 p. _b: ill. _c; 23 cm.
440		0	_aCalifornia series in public anthropology _v; 8
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aParadise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala--tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village--its birth, destruction, and rebirth--embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. With great insight and compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives.
610	2	0	_aEjecito Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
650		0	_aQuiche Indians _x--Crimes against _z--Guatemala _z--Santa Maria Tzeja
650			_aQuiche indians _x-Relocation
650		0	_aMassacres
650		4	_aPolitical violence _x-History _y-20th century
650		0	_aCivil-military relations
650		0	_aReturn migration _x--Mexico
651		0	_aSanta Maria Tzeja (Guatemala) _x--Social conditions
651		0	_aSanta Maria Tzeja _x--Politics and government
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