Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo /
The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to recent changes. It emerges that the lake has become a favoured spot for holiday homes and that the village has been subject to streams of tourists in the last decades. The filmmakers, while they are offici...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
| Published: |
London :
Royal Anthropological Institute,
[1991?]
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| Series: | Disappearing world.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to recent changes. It emerges that the lake has become a favoured spot for holiday homes and that the village has been subject to streams of tourists in the last decades. The filmmakers, while they are officially welcomed and given permission to film, in practice many people hid their faces, would not co-operate and even threw stones. The film team tried to find an explanation of the Maya hostility to the camera. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (55 min.). Previously released as DVD. |
| Playing Time: | 00:55:01 |