Summary:

"Paradise in Ashes is a moving account of the violence and repression
that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Beatriz
Manz, an anthropologist who spent more than two decades studying the
Mayan highlands and rain forests of Guatemala, tells the story of the
remote village of Santa Maria Tzeja, near the Mexican border. Manz
shows how the story of this village - its birth, destruction, and
rebirth - embodies the forces and conflicts that define Guatemala
today.

She places the saga of Santa Maria Tzeja in a broad framework that
encompasses Guatemala's tortured history, the conflicts of the cold
war, and the tensions of contemporary globalization. Her chronicle
demonstrates that it is in villages such as this that the difficult
struggle for survival is unfolding.".

"Drawing on her interviews with peasants, community leaders,
guerrillas, and members of the paramilitary forces, Manz creates a
detailed political portrait of Santa Maria Tzeja, where highland Maya
peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. She describes these
villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise
became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country in
the 1980s.

After the village was viciously sacked in 1982, some 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 insight and
compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa
Maria Tzeja, where they sought to rebuild their village and their
lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index.

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Dewey Class: 972.81052 -- General history of North America Middle America; Mexico
LCC Number: F1465.2

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xix, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

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