Author: Smith Timothy J. Smith

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader …

Examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people in ethnography and in anthropological work In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume …

This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms …