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Highly Recommended Reading

Farmer, Paul 2005   Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Rev. Ed., Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fisher, Edward F. and Peter Benson 2006  Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Goldman, Francisco   2007  The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?  New York: Grove Press.

Keck, Margaret E. and Kathryn Sikkink   1998 Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Kronenberg, Frank, Salvador Simo Algado, and Nick Pollard   2004  Occupational Therapy Without Borders: Learning from the Spirit of Survivors.  Oxford:  Elsevier. [Attn: Chs. 19 and 25]

Little, Walter E. and Timothy J. Smith   2009  Mayas in Postwar Guatemala:  Harvest of Violence Revisited.  Tuscaloosa: U of  Alabama Press.

Menchu, Rigoberta   1987  I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Trans. E. Burgos-Debray. Verso Books.                 

Pollard, Nick, Dikaios Sakellariou, and Frank Kronenberg   2009  A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.

Wilkinson, Daniel    2004   Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.    

Further Recommended Reading

Carmack, Robert M.    1988  Harvest of Violence:  The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis.  Norman, OK:  Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

Berger, Susan A.    2005  Guatemaltecas:  The Women’s Movement, 1986-2003.  Austin:  Univ. of Texas Press.

Fisher, Edward F.   2001  Cultural Logics and Global Economics: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Galeano, Eduardo   1973  Open Veins of Latin America:  Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.  New York:   Monthly Review Press.

Hale, Charles R.   2006 Más que un Indio: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala.

Hendrickson, Carol   1995  Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemalan Town, Austin: University of Texas Press.

Little, Walter E.    2004  Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Luecke, Richard    1993 A New Dawn in Guatemala: Toward a Worldwide Health Vision. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Manz, Beatriz    2004  Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope. Berkeley:  University of California  Press.

Nelson, Diane M.    1997  A Finger in the Wound:  Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.  Berkeley:  Univ.  of California Press.

Reeves, René    2006 Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala. Stanford: Stanford UP.

Sanford, Victoria    2003 Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schlesinger, Stephen and Stephen Kinzer    2005   Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sen, Amartya    1999   Development as Freedom.  New York: Anchor Books.

Sikkink, Kathryn    2004  Mixed Signals: U. S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America.  Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

Steltzer, Uri   1983 Health in the Guatemalan Highlands.  With Carroll Behrhorst. Seattle:  Univ. of  Washington Press.

Stoll, David    1999   Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans.  Boulder: Westview.

Stoll, David    1993  Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala.  New York:  Columbia UP.

Tierney, Nancy    1997  Robbed of Humanity:  Lives of Guatemalan Street Children.  St. Paul, MN: Pangaea.

Taylor, Clark    1997  Return of Guatemala’s Refugees:  Reweaving the Torn.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP.