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Author:

Kahn, Hilary E., 1966-

Title:

Seeing and being seen : the Q'eqchi' Maya in Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond / Hilary E. Kahn.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xi, 242 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Kekchi Indians--Lívingston--Lívingston--History.
Kekchi Indians--Lívingston--Lívingston--Ethnic identity.
Kekchi Indians--Lívingston--Lívingston--Social conditions.
Video recording in ethnology--Lívingston.--Lívingston.
Motion pictures in ethnology--Lívingston.--Lívingston.
Indians in motion pictures.
Lívingston (Guatemala)--Social life and customs.

Notes:

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 -- 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.

ISBN:

9780292714557
0292714556
9780292713482
0292713487

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68965681

LCCN:

2006015717

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)