[Mitai-announce] Paradise in Ashes: The Impact of Civil War on a Guatemalan Village Tues. March 16, 7:00

[Susan Frick]

Paradise in Ashes: The Impact of Civil War on A Guatemalan Village

Beatriz Manz, Professor of Geography & Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley
Moderator: Jean Jackson, Professor of Anthropology, MIT

Tuesday, March 16,  2004
7:00 p.m., MIT Room 66-110

Co-Sponsored by the MIT Anthropology Program, the MIT Program on Human 
Rights & Justice, and the MIT Western Hemisphere Project

   "Beatriz Manz has written a moving chronicle of
   Guatemalan villagers who have endured unspeakable
   injustice, yet remarkably look to the future with
   hope.  This splendid book is a beautifully written
   human story that is framed by the passions and
   devastating consequences of the Cold War.  The
   narrative is a testament to the power of public
   anthropology and a must-read for those concerned
   about the marginalized of the south."

   -- Isabel Allende

   "The violent overthrow of democracy in Guatemala
   in 1954 by the army, with CIA backing, spelled
   the end of FDR's "good neighbor" policy.  In its
   stead, Cold War ideology transformed Guatemala
   into one vast death camp.  No wonder President
   Clinton apologized to the victims of that genocide.
   Beatriz Manz, as both an anthropologist and a human
   being, gives us a precise account of the high price
   of a political mistake."

   -- Carlos Fuentes


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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