Violent Memories
Subtitle: Mayan War Widows In Guatemala
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780813338972
Subjects: Anthropology; Civil war; Women's studies; Sociology; Political Science; Guatemala; Latin America - Central America; Violence in Society; History : Latin America - Central America; Social Science / Violence in Society; General
First sentence: I went to newly democratic Guatemala in 1988 to conduct research into how Mayan widows and orphans experienced their losses during The Violence (la violencia) (1978-1985), only to discover that it was still going on-with a vengeance.