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Seeing and being seen [electronic resource] : the Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and beyond / Hilary E. Kahn.

By: Kahn, Hilary E, 1966-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 242 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- History | Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- Ethnic identity | Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Livingston -- Social conditions | Video recording in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Livingston | Motion pictures in ethnology -- Guatemala -- Livingston | Indians in motion pictures | Livingston (Guatemala) -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.897/42072813 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction -- Field(s) of engagement : Livingston and Proyecto Ajwacsiinel -- Cycles of debt : colonialism, coffee, and companies -- Envisioning power and morality : Tzuultaq'a, Germans, and action-in-place -- Private consumption, communities, and kin -- Publicly performing moralities and internalizing vision -- Anachronistic mediators and sensory selves : exploring time and space -- Día de Guadalupe : identity politics -- Crime, globalization, and ethnic relations in Livingston and beyond -- I am a camera : vignettes of ethnographic vérité -- Endings and beginnings.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.

Introduction -- Field(s) of engagement : Livingston and Proyecto Ajwacsiinel -- Cycles of debt : colonialism, coffee, and companies -- Envisioning power and morality : Tzuultaq'a, Germans, and action-in-place -- Private consumption, communities, and kin -- Publicly performing moralities and internalizing vision -- Anachronistic mediators and sensory selves : exploring time and space -- Día de Guadalupe : identity politics -- Crime, globalization, and ethnic relations in Livingston and beyond -- I am a camera : vignettes of ethnographic vérité -- Endings and beginnings.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.