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Highland Guatemala (highland + guatemala)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Conceptual Dichotomies and Cultural Realities: Gender, Work, and Religion in Highland Guatemala

ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 3 2001
Christopher L. Chiappari
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Humbling, Frightening, and Exalting

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2006
Tenibac S. Harvey
The field research presented here on K'iche' Maya healing in highland Guatemala is a work of ethnography and to a lesser (though not an insignificant) extent a work of linguistic anthropology. In this ethnographic retelling of an experiential acquaintance with Maya healing, we examine in intimate detail one specific therapeutic encounter and focus on K'iche' conceptions and experiences of kyeb awanima (being of two hearts) and of achi lib al (companionship) as they relate to healing. These ethnographic intimations seek to avoid autometric descriptions, offering instead something like near-life experience and a kind of socio-scientific atonement to experience that ever follows but never fixes the indeterminacies and lubricities of experience. [source]

The direct and indirect impacts of population growth and economic development on maize (Zea mays L.) diversity in highland Guatemala

AREA, Issue 1 2009
Michael K Steinberg
This paper discusses the impacts of population growth and economic development on maize diversity in highland Guatemala. In the context of this discussion, economic development specifically refers to the recent expansion of the non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAEs). Population growth and economic development (i.e. NTAEs) are linked because as land has become scarce in highland Guatemala, due to the poor distribution of land resources and rapid population growth over the past 50 years, many farmers have turned to non-traditional economic strategies such as new crops that produce more income per unit of land. These new crops have improved the economic conditions of many farming families, but it has come at a cost regarding the maintenance of local maize varieties and household food security. [source]