Joseño
Subtitle: Another Mayan Voice Speaks from Guatemala
Contributors: James D. Sexton (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: August 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780826323545
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Native American Anthropology; Bizarro Ujpâan, Ignacio; Social conditions; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Latin America - Central America; Biography/Autobiography; North America; Diaries; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Biography; People of Color; Tzutuhil Indians; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science; Bizarro Ujpan, Ignacio
Description: "Joseno: Another Mayan Voice Speaks from Guatemala covers the period from 1987-98 and is the fourth and latest volume of Bizarro's diary, the authentic life history of a common man, a campesino, a principal (elder) in his town, and a Tzutuhil Indian whose life has spanned the ongoing struggle for democracy and economic justice in Guatemala.

His vivid and plain-spoken account of life among the Maya during the war between guerrillas and the army in the 1980s and 1990s offers detailed descriptions of the atrocities committed by both sides and brings the reader into a Mayan world richly textured with indigenous beliefs and practices.

Bizarro's diary also records the Mayan cultural revitalization sweeping Guatemala, as well as the fortunes of the Indian peoples who have so often been pawns in the vicious power struggles between Left and Right."--BOOK JACKET.