BEYOND REPAIR?
GENOCIDE, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, HUMAN RIGHTS SERIES
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Douglas A. Kammen, Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor
Walter Richmond, The Circassian Genocide
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Irina Silber, Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador
Samuel Totten and Rafiki Ubaldo, eds., We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
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BEYOND REPAIR?
Mayan Womens Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm
LISON CROSBY AND M.BRINTON LYKES
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Crosby, Alison, author. | Lykes, M. Brinton, 1949- author.
Title: Beyond repair? : Mayan womens protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm / Alison Crosby, M. Brinton Lykes.
Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] | Series: Genocide, political violence, human rights | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022085| ISBN 9780813598970 (cloth) | ISBN 9780813598963 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Maya womenGuatemalaSocial conditions. | WomenCrimes againstGuatemala. | GuatemalaHistoryCivil War, 1960-1996Social aspects. | GuatemalaHistoryCivil War, 1960-1996Atrocities.
Classification: LCC F1435.3.W55 C76 2019 | DDC 305.4097281dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022085
A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.
The painting featured on the cover, Personajes (People), is by Jos Colaj (19592011), a Mayan artist from Comalapa, Chimaltenango. The yellows, reds, oranges, and blues capture the earth tones of rural Guatemala; embodied sketches of peasants are pictured from behind, obscuring their faces yet eliciting remembrances of the intensity of life during Guatemalas genocidal violence. As described by his family, The work of the master artist Jos Colaj is always representative of the struggle, suffering and resistance of our communities, but also hopes for the revindication of our rights and worth as a people.
Copyright 2019 by Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes
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To the next generations of Maya who draw strength from their ancestors, and to those who walk in solidarity with them.
CONTENTS
AJR | Asociacin Justicia y Reconciliacin [Association for Justice and Reconciliation] |
APDHE | Asociacin Pro Derechos Humanos de Espaa [Spanish Human Rights Association] |
ASA | Asociacin Sororidad Activa [Active Sisterhood Association] |
AVIHDESMI | Asociacin de Vctimas, Viudas, Hurfanos y Desarraigados del Conflicto Armado Interno de la Sierra de las Minas [Association of Victims, Widows, Orphans, and People Displaced by the Internal Armed Conflict in the Sierra de las Minas] |
CAFCA | Centro de Anlisis Forense y Ciencias Aplicadas [Center for Forensic Analysis and Applied Sciences] |
CALDH | Centro para la Accin Legal en Derechos Humanos [Center for Legal Action in Human Rights] |
CEDAW | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
CEH | Comisin para el Esclarecimiento Histrico [Commission for Historical Clarification] |
CICIG | Comisin Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala [International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala] |
COCODES | Consejos Comunitarios de Desarrollo [Community Development Councils] |
CONAVIGUA | Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala [National Coordinating Committee of Widows of Guatemala] |
CPR | Comunidades de Poblaciones en Resistancia [Communities of Populations in Resistance] |
DIWN | Defensora Indgena Wajxaqib Noj [Wajxaqib Noj Indigenous Legal Defense Organization] |
ECAP | Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Accin Psicosocial [Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team] |
EGP | Ejrcito Guerrillero de los Pobres [Guerrilla Army of the Poor] |
FAFG | Fundacin de Antropologa Forense de Guatemala [Foundation of Forensic Anthropology of Guatemala] |
FIRE | Feminist International Radio Endeavor |
IACHR | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
ICC | International Criminal Court |
ICCPG | Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala [Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal Sciences of Guatemala] |
INACIF | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses [National Institute of Forensic Sciences] |
INGUAT | Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo [Guatemalan Tourism Institute] |
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