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    As we begin to go on an excursion through literature, it is important to understand the concept of what an ethnography is. Ethnography is known to be a descriptive type of work that analyzes culture and customs of individual people. James Clifford has implemented this work into his studies and has influenced many others to do the same. I saw through the books I have read, ethnography makes these books become vivacious for a reader. In “The Cosmic Race”, by Jose Vasconcelos, he discusses

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    An Indian Woman In Guatemala Essay example

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    An Indian Woman In Guatemala Guatemala is the land of Eternal Springs and the home of the richly cultured and historic Mayan people. It it also the country of Rigoberta Menchu, an illiterate farm worker, turned voice of oppressed people everywhere. Guatemala also has the sad distinction of being home to Latin America's oldest civil war. "For more than three decades, left-wing guerrillas have fought a series of rightist governments in Guatemala. The war has killed an estimated 140,000 in

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    Menchú was born to the Mayan Quiché Indian tribe in Chimel, a village in the mountains of northeastern Guatemala. At the age of eight, she began working, picking coffee to help support herself and her family. She frequently witnessed violent conflicts between the Guatemalan army and guerrilla forces, and observed several notorious “disappearances” that plagued Central American countries during the 1970s and 1980s. She was active in the Comité de Unidad Campesina (Peasant Unity Committee), a political

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    Central America. The main population groups separate “Ladinos”, mixed Native American-African-Spanish individuals, from Native indigenous people of Mayan descent. Although she faced mistreatment and severe oppression by the Ladinos she encountered, Rigoberta realized that unification was the only way to end repression. She firmly believed that the barrier that divided the Indians and Ladinos was the sole causative factor that kept the both factions oppressed by the wealthy government elite. Similar

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    Rigoberta Menchu has the power of storyteller where her stories are very simple but she makes us feel the story and make us think and live the moment and that’s why Rigoberta is the voice of the indigenous people because a lot of people think that she has the power to change the mind of the people and make justice for her people. Rigoberta Menchu, Leanne Simpson and Leslie Marmon Silko have a very important stories and have

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    Elke Lynch Global Issues Ms. Maass 11 May 2016 I, Rigoberta Mechú, the Sequel Background: I was born January 9th, 1959 in Laj Chimel in Guatemala, as a member of the Quiche tribe, a tribe made up of descendants of the Mayan Civilization. I lost my parents and brother in 1981, during Guatemala’s civil war because of my father’s role as a government opposition leader. My brother, Petrocinio, was kidnapped and killed by the army and my parents were killed in protest at the Spanish Embassy, located

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    In the 1932: Scars of Memory and Rosario Castellanos’ City of Kings, with its excerpt, Arthur Smith Finds Salvation, demonstrated the ambiguous characteristics of the distinctive culture of indigenous people of modern Latin America. It was the specific and violent continuity of ancient traditions that potentially influenced the constant uprisings as well as dictatorships, as the Mayan and Aztec civilizations were known for their aggressive rituals and behavioral patterns (Castellanos, 137). All the

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    Guatemala and the issues that they dealt with during the many government changes and the civil war in 1960. One of the issues that Gonzalez shows in their film is the mass killings that occurred in Guatemala. In the Film the Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu explains her own experience and she talks about the killings that occurred. The situation that Guatemala experienced started when Jacobo Arbenz, who was the president of Guatemala 1951-1954 decided to distribute unused land to peasants to reduce

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    Mayan Genocide

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    because they feared that the Mayan’s were turning communistic.(Rey 241) A genocide was started that would remove the Mayan culture and history from Guatemala, ending the existence of the indigenous people. Rigorberto Menchu’s book I, Rigorberto Menchu describes the events that took place during this brutal genocide and how the indigenous people lived through this genocide.

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    These movements paved the way for the new generation of league leaders, as their experiences taught them the necessity of linking peace and justice. The organization tried to balance how far it should go in being assertive, even if it meant breaking the law and attracting authorities. Like with Henry David Thoreau and his civil disobedience, the War Resisters League supported and endorsed tax resistance in order to further protest the war; however, they did not endorse the burning of draft cards

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