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11%OFFHilary E. Kahn - Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond - 9780292714557 - V9780292714557
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Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond

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Description for Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond Paperback. Explores the dynamic Mayan customs of the Q'eqchi' people living in the cultural crossroads of Livingston, Guatemala. This book watches unobtrusively the traditions, rituals, and everyday actions that exemplify the long-standing moral concepts guiding the Q'eqchi' in their relationships and tribulations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
The practice of morality and the formation of identity among an indigenous Latin American culture are framed in a pioneering ethnography of sight that attempts to reverse the trend of anthropological fieldwork and theory overshadowing one another. In this vital and richly detailed work, methodology and theory are treated as complementary partners as the author explores the dynamic Mayan customs of the Q'eqchi' people living in the cultural crossroads of Livingston, Guatemala. Here, Q'eqchi', Ladino, and Garifuna (Caribbean-coast Afro-Indians) societies interact among themselves and with others ranging from government officials to capitalists to ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292714557
SKU
V9780292714557
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About Hilary E. Kahn
Hilary E. Kahn is Associate Director, Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology for Indiana University, Bloomington.

Reviews for Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond
Hilary Kahn presents the readership with an interesting ethnography that defies the established methodology and assumptions about scientific objectivism...the introductory presentation of the methodological basis of Kahn's work is followed by ten descriptive and simultaneously analytical chapters...Kahn's book may be certainly read as a conventional ethnography...what makes it unconventional, however, is the author's challenge to the positivist gaze ... Read more

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