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

An ethnographic study of the morality and self-identity of the Q'eqchi' people of Livingston, Guatemala.
eBook, English, 2006
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006
History
1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
9780292795679, 9780292779778, 029279567X, 0292779771
191950627
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 vérité
Endings and beginnings
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English