Voices from Exile
Subtitle: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780806131719
Subjects: Ethnography; Political Repression; Latin America - Central America; Native Americans - History; Wars; History; History - General History; History: World; Central America; North America; The Americas; Mayas; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Native American; Guatemala; Relocation; Crimes against; Mexico
First sentence: RECENT DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES of Guatemala estimate that Mayas make up 60 percent or more of the total population of 9.5 million (Lovell and Lutz 1994: 138).
Description: "Elilal, exile, is the condition of thousands of Mayas who have fled their homelands in Guatemala to escape repression and even death at the hands of their government. In this book, Victor Montejo, who is both a Maya expatriate and an anthropologist, gives voice to those who until now have struggled in silencebut who nevertheless have found ways to reaffirm and celebrate their Mayaness."--BOOK JACKET.

"Voices from Exile is the authentic story of one group of Mayas from the Kuchumatan highlands who fled into Mexico and sought refuge there. Montejo's combination of autobiography, history, political analysis, and testimonial narrative offers a profound exploration of state terror and its inescapable human cost."--BOOK JACKET.