Our Elders Teach Us - Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor David Carey Jr. is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine. Allan F. Burns is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida. Klappentext In this rich and dynamic work! David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves. Valuable to historians! anthropologists! archaeologists! or anyone interested in Mayan and Latin American studies! this book will inform as well as enchant. Zusammenfassung Combining anthropology and history! David Carey uses both oral interviews and archival research to construct a history of the last 50 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. He compares the Maya-Kaqchikel's point of view with that of western scholars.

Product details

• Authors: David Carey, David Raymond Carey
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2001
• EAN: 9780817311193
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1119-3
• No. of pages: 385
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Contemporary American Indian S; Contemporary American Indian Studies; Contemporary American Indian S; Contemporary American Indian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous