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Spanish colonies in Central and South America emerged as wellsprings of cultural activity throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The meeting of indigenous populations with Latin American cathedrals and courtly life resulted in styles bearing the imprint of folk music, even in sacred compositions. The sophisticated musical culture of Guatemala City Cathedral is represented in an archive of hundreds of works, several of which are recorded...
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"David Mingolla is one of many drug-pumped grunts slugging it out in the rotten jungles of Guatemala, an expendable pawn in an endless, amoral war. Then he meets Debora, an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy, and stumbles into the deadly war zone of psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon, and thoughts are used to kill." -- Amazon book description.
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This is an award-winning documentary that follows four friends from the USA, who move to rural Guatemala for two months to document their lives living on less than {20}1 a day. They battle hunger, parasites, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, they are inspired by the generosity and strength of people they meet in the village. Meeting Rosa, her husband Anthony, and 12-year-old Chino gives the group hope that there are still ways...
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Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D. reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular, Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political authority but also as a manifestation of various supernatural entities...
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"Describes the cave site of Naj Tunich in the southeastern Petén region of Guatemala. Includes an analysis of the cave painting style and iconography and (with Barbara MacLeod) of the hieroglyphic texts that accompany some of them. A survey of cave paintings from other parts of the Maya world and elsewhere in Mesoamerica provides a broad comparative context"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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"Deep within the forest in northern Guatemala lie the ruins of Rio Azul, a Maya city that reached one-third the size of Tikal. Discovered and partially explored in the early 1960s, Rio Azul and the surrounding region were more fully investigated between 1983 and 1987 by an archaeological team led by Richard E.W. Adams. In this summary, Adams integrates the findings of field archaeologists with those of the epigraphers and art historians to recreate...
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Coffee is second only to oil as the world's most valuable traded commodity, but small-scale producers rarely profit from it. This program reveals the hardship and uncertainty faced by coffee farmers in Guatemala, and how many are taking steps to obtain better prices and build better lives. Analyzing the country's traumatic history and the lingering effects of its civil war, the video sheds light on the reluctance of some citizens to organize for fear...
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After two decades the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) remains dedicated to the work of listening to bones that "don't lie and don't forget." FAFG's work demands that we revisit chapters of history that have been deemed closed or resolved, and name, one by one, the thousands who were detained and disappeared during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala. Directed by Kim Munsamy.
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