David Carey

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Our Elders Teach Us

Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

By David Carey; Preface by Allan Burns
University of Alabama Press

 

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.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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I Ask for Justice

Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944

University of Texas Press

This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Faces of Resistance

Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

University of Alabama Press

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Distilling the Influence of Alcohol

Aguardiente in Guatemalan History

Edited by David Carey
University Press of Florida
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