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Author Kahn, Hilary E., 1966-

Title Seeing and being seen [electronic resource] : the Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond / Hilary E. Kahn.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 242 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.
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 -- Dia de Guadalupe : identity politics -- Crime, globalization, and ethnic relations in Livingston and beyond -- I am a camera : vignettes of ethnographic verite -- Endings and beginnings.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- History.
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- Ethnic identity.
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- Social conditions.
Video recording in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Livingston.
Motion pictures in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Livingston.
Indians in motion pictures.
Livingston (Guatemala) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292713487
9780292713482
0292714556
9780292714557

 
    
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