Seeing and being seen [electronic resource] : the Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond / Hilary E. Kahn
- Author:
- Kahn, Hilary E., 1966-
- Published:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 242 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Access Online:
- serialssolutions.com
- Restrictions on Access:
- License restrictions may limit access.
- 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 vérité -- Endings and beginnings.
- Subject(s):
- Kekchi Indians—Guatemala—Lívingston—History
- Kekchi Indians—Guatemala—Lívingston—Ethnic identity
- Kekchi Indians—Guatemala—Lívingston—Social conditions
- Video recording in ethnology—Guatemala—Lívingston
- Motion pictures in ethnology—Guatemala—Lívingston
- Indians in motion pictures
- Lívingston (Guatemala)—Social life and customs
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 0292713487
9780292713482
0292714556
9780292714557 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.
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