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Seeing and being seen : 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
- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- 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
- Kekchi—Guatemala—Livingston—Histoire
- Kekchi—Identité ethnique—Guatemala—Livingston
- Kekchi—Guatemala—Livingston—Conditions sociales
- Vidéo en ethnologie—Guatemala—Livingston
- Cinéma en ethnologie—Guatemala—Livingston
- Peuples autochtones au cinéma
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Ethnic Studies—Native American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Anthropology—Cultural
- Kekchi Indians
- Kekchi Indians—Ethnic identity
- Manners and customs
- Motion pictures in ethnology
- Video recording in ethnology
- Lívingston (Guatemala)—Social life and customs
- Guatemala—Lívingston
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780292795679 (electronic bk.)
029279567X (electronic bk.)
9780292779778
0292779771
0292713487
9780292713482
0292714556
9780292714557 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
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