New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

xviii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index.

Six Women from Xe'caj -- Pt. 1. A Legacy of Violence. 1. In the Aftermath of War: An Introduction. 2. The Altiplano: A History of Violence and Survival. 3. Living in a State of Fear -- Pt. 2. A Legacy of Survival. 4. From Wives to Widows: Subsistence and Social Relations. 5. The Embodiment of Violence: Lived Lives and Social Suffering. 6. The Dialectics of Cloth. 7. Shifting Affiliations: Social Exigencies and Evangelicos. 8. Mutual Betrayal and Collective Dignity.

Cakchikel women -- Wars.

Cakchikel women -- Crimes against.

Cakchikel women -- Social conditions.

War widows -- Guatemala -- Social conditions.

War widows -- Guatemala -- Economic conditions.

Guatemala -- Politics and government.

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