POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Documenta, Ethnography
28 May 2016
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Truth and political violence in latin america: exploring ethnographic and cultural paths to knowledge. The political violence in guatemala and its aftermath. Rigoberta menchu, nobel prize 1993, mayan, human rights activist and indigenous. Her book generated a tremendous amount of scrutiny and coverage. Her story about mayans also raises important questions about how we amass knowledge. Her book gives us a narrative about her life and her family on the one hand and on the other it gives us access to how stories like that are received especially in university. It gives us a critical look at the critics of her story. Originally it was published in 1983 and then in different edition: it is by far the most read book that has anything to do with guatemala. It is also one of the points of contact to understand issues of violence in latin america and the violence of dictatorships and military regimes.
