Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

ISBN-13: 9781349526178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 313 str.

Victoria Sanford; V. Sanford

Opis

"Buried Secrets" chronicles the journey of Maya survivors of genocidal violence in Guatemala as they seek truth, justice, and community healing.

Recenzje

'No book on this topic has approached the thoroughness and raw impact of Victoria Sandford's Buried Secrets.' - Christian Parenti, San Diego Union-Tribune

'...Sanford critically and eloquantly documents the U.S. sponsored violations of human rights in Guatemala.' - Lilliana Patricia Sandeman, San Antonio Express-News

'This landmark book reaches out to those who are trying to understand Guatemala...' - Jim Przepasniak, El Paso Times

'Victoria Sanford leads us into a powerful and heartbreaking history of testimonies. Her journey into this war zone ... is clear-eyed, haunting and, above all, close to the ground.' - Michael Ondaatje, Author of Anil's Ghost

'The genocide in Guatemala and how survivors have dealt with it constitutes, in Victora Sanford's gripping and compassionate tale, a crucial lesson in ways in which to keep memory and hope alive.' - Ariel Dorfman, Author of Death and the Maiden

Spis treści

Introduction 'The Bones Don't Lie' The Silencing of Maya Women The Phenomenology of Terror Ethnography of Genocide Part I: 'It Fills My heart with Sadness' Ethnography of Genocide Part II: The Exhumation and the Anti-Christ Guatemalan Army Campaigns of Genocide From Survivor Testimonies to Discourses of Power The Power Effects of Declaring the Truth Excavations of the Heart: Healing Fragmented Communities Genocide and the 'Grey Zone' of Justice

O autorze

Victoria Sanford is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. She is a member of the anthropology doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Stanford University where she studied International Human Rights Law and Immigration Law at Stanford Law School. She was a Bunting Peace Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.