Seeing and being seen
Subtitle: the Q'eqchi' Maya in Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond
By: Hilary E. Kahn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780292713482; 9780292714557
Subjects: Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Lívingston -- History; Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Lívingston -- Ethnic identity; Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Lívingston -- Social conditions; Video recording in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Lívingston; Motion pictures in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Lívingston; Indians in motion pictures; Lívingston (Guatemala) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Field(s) of engagement : Livingston and Proyecto Ajwacsiinel; title: Cycles of debt : colonialism, coffee, and companies; title: Envisioning power and morality : Tzuultaq'a, Germans, and action-in-place; title: Private consumption, communities, and kin; title: Publicly performing moralities and internalizing vision; title: Anachronistic mediators and sensory selves : exploring time and space; title: Día de Guadalupe : identity politics; title: Crime, globalization, and ethnic relations in Livingston and beyond; title: I am a camera : vignettes of ethnographic vérité; title: Endings and beginnings.