Los Ángeles, CA, Estados Unidos : University of California Press, c2004.

xix, 311 p. : il., b y n ; 24 cm.

California series in public anthropology ; 8

List of illustrations. -- Foreword. -- Acknowledgments. -- Maps. -- Introduction. -- 1. The highland homeland. -- 2. Setting in the promised land. -- 3. The war finds paradise. -- 4. Ashes, exodus, and faded dreams. -- 5. A militarized village. -- 6. Reunification. -- 7. treading between fear and hope. -- Notes. -- Bibliography. -- Index. --

Tomado de Amazon: "Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz―an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala―tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village―its birth, destruction, and rebirth―embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today.

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