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Seeing and being seen : the Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahn, Hilary E., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Indians in motion pictures.
Motion pictures in ethnology > Guatemala > Lívingston.
Video recording in ethnology > Guatemala > Lívingston.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > Lívingston > Social conditions.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > Lívingston > Ethnic identity.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > Lívingston > History.
Lívingston (Guatemala) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Field(s) of engagement : Livingston and Proyecto Ajwacsiinel
  • Cycles of debt : colonialism, coffee, and companies
  • Envisioning power and morality : Tzuultaq'a, Germans, and action-in-place
  • Private consumption, communities, and kin
  • Publicly performing moralities and internalizing vision
  • Anachronistic mediators and sensory selves : exploring time and space
  • Día de Guadalupe : identity politics
  • Crime, globalization, and ethnic relations in Livingston and beyond
  • I am a camera : vignettes of ethnographic verite
  • Endings and beginnings.