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In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor

September 27, 2022

By SUSANNA SHARPE NORA ENGLAND’S PASSION FOR LINGUISTICS was sparked in college, where, almost on a whim, she enrolled in a field methods course. “That really got me going—actually hearing data from another language and paying attention to it,” she recalled in an interview, describing one lecture … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor

Tagged With: CILLA, Guatemala, Indigenous languages, Maya linguistics, Nora England, Susanna Sharpe, University of Texas at Austin

21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala

April 19, 2018

POR HANNAH ALPERT-ABRAMS | traducido por Susanna Sharpe ¿Cómo le hacemos para entender 80 millones de páginas de documentos históricos? Esta pregunta es de naturaleza filosófica. Se trata del poder de la mente para asimilar un número tan grande de documentos. El Archivo Histórico de la … [Read more...] about 21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala

Tagged With: AHPN, Digital archives, Digital humanities, Guatemala, Guatemala armed conflict, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues

Rethinking Maya Studies: A Conversation with Ruud van Akkeren

August 5, 2016

BY SUSANNA SHARPE It is hard not to feel moved when talking to Ruud van Akkeren about his research. In such a conversation, it quickly becomes clear that Van Akkeren has his own nuanced, and possibly revolutionary, way of understanding Maya past and present in Guatemala, and that he doesn’t … [Read more...] about Rethinking Maya Studies: A Conversation with Ruud van Akkeren

Tagged With: Guatemala, Highland Maya, Indigenous Issues, Kaminal Juyu, Maya, Rabinal achi, Ruud van Akkeren

Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala

July 29, 2016

BY IRMA ALICIA VELÁSQUEZ NIMATUJ Transitional justice refers to measures both judicial and non-judicial that are intended to redress large-scale human rights abuses. In this article, I focus on two recent cases of transitional justice in Guatemala. The first is the 2013 trial against General and … [Read more...] about Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala

Tagged With: Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Guatemala, Guatemala armed conflict, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues, indigenous women, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, LLILAS, Ríos Montt, Sepur Zarco, war crimes trial

Masculinity and Gender in Kaqchikel Sololá, Guatemala

March 18, 2016

BY RIGOBERTO AJCALÓN CHOY “The law is giving many freedoms to women,” notes an interviewee with some dismay when I ask him about the current status of indigenous women in the rural Guatemalan town of Kaqchikel Sololá. This response exemplifies men’s reactions to the slow but steady pace at which … [Read more...] about Masculinity and Gender in Kaqchikel Sololá, Guatemala

Tagged With: Guatemala, Indigenous Issues, Kaqchikel Sololá, LLILAS students, masculinity, Rigoberto Ajcalón Choy, Student Research

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