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Lutz, Christopher H. "Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773 : city, caste, and the colonial experience /." Norman (Okla.) ; London : University of Oklahoma press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371972040.

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Texte remanié et abrégé de: Doct. diss.--University of Wisconsin, 1982. Titre de soutenance : Historia socio-demográfica de Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773.
Glossaire. Bibliogr. p. 319-333. Index.
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Huang, Lindsey A. "Prosperity Belief and Liberal Individualism: A Study of Economic and Social Attitudes in Guatemala." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801941/.

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Globalization has facilitated the growth of “market-friendly” religions throughout the world, but especially in developing societies in the global South. A popular belief among these movements is prosperity belief. Prosperity belief has several characteristics which make it compatible with liberal individualism, the dominant value in a globalized society. At the same time, its compatibility with this value may be limited, extending only to economic liberalism, but not to liberal attitudes on social issues. Data from the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life’s 2006 survey Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Guatemala is used to conduct a quantitative analysis regarding the economic and social attitudes of prosperity belief adherents in Guatemala in order to examine the potential, as well as the limits, of this belief’s compatibility with liberal individualism. Results suggest that support for liberal individualism is bifurcated. On one hand there is some support for the positive influence of prosperity belief on economic liberalism in regards to matters of free trade, but on the other hand, prosperity belief adherents continue to maintain conservative attitudes in regards to social issues. As prosperity belief and liberal individualism continue to grow along global capitalism, these findings have implications for the future of market-friendly religions and for the societies of the global South.
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Alfaro, Alicia E. "Prehispanic Water Management at Takalik Abaj, Guatemala." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1547711.

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Land and water use at archaeological sites is a growing field of study within Mesoamerican archaeology. In Mesoamerica, similar to elsewhere in the world, landscapes were settled based partially upon the characteristics of the environment and the types of food and water resources available. Across Mesoamerica, landscape concepts were also important to religious beliefs and ritual activity in a manner that may have had the potential to influence the power dynamics of a site. This thesis focuses on the management of water at the site of Takalik Abaj in Guatemala during the Middle to Late Preclassic periods (c. 1000 B.C. - A.D. 250) in order to analyze potential ritual and political functions of the water management system. Using spatial data within GIS, this thesis examines the flow of water across the site as directed by its topographical features. The archaeological record of Takalik Abaj and comparisons to water management systems at other Mesoamerican sites are also used to investigate the functions of the water management system. Thesis findings suggest that the water management system of Takalik Abaj was multi-faceted and that ritual functions tied to the control of water may have contributed to the identities and power of the elite.

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Lundström, Camilla. "Are there links between children's self-esteem and parent/child interaction in Guatemalan children?" Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24405.

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This investigation examined the relations between children’s self-esteem and parent/child interaction. It also searched for a link between self-esteem and numbers of siblings, gender and working after school. 47 students from public schools in Guatemala City, Guatemala (age 10-14 years old) participated in this study (14 girls and 33 boys). Participants completed measures of Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory and a questionnaire regarding Parent - Child Interactions. The study showed that there was a positive correlation in boys’ population between level of self-esteem and parent - child interaction, but a negative correlation for girls. A positive correlation in girls’ population was shown between self-esteem and number of siblings, a negative correlation was shown between self-esteem and working after school. However in boys’ population there was a positive correlation between self-esteem and working after school, and a negative correlation for siblings. There is also a skewed distribution in boys’ and girls’ answers, and no generalizations can be made because of too few respondents, therefore further studies in this area should be done
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Johnson, Lindsey A. "Socioeconomic Status and Prosperity Belief in Guatemala." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500191/.

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A popular belief in the exploding Pentecostal movement in the global South is the idea that if an individual has enough faith, God will bless them with financial prosperity. Although historically Pentecostalism has been identified as a religion of the poor, this study examines recent arguments that the current Pentecostal movement in Guatemala is a religion of the socially mobile middle and elite classes. Data from the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life’s 2006 survey Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Guatemala is used to conduct a logistic regression, in order to measure the effects of socioeconomic status on adherence to prosperity belief. Results suggest that, contrary to the current literature on Guatemalan Pentecostalism, prosperity belief is not necessarily concentrated among the upwardly mobile middle and upper classes, but rather is widely diffused across social strata, and in particular, among those that have lower levels of education. These findings have implications for the study of Pentecostalism in Guatemala and in the global South in general.
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Affre, Nathalie. "Les ONG et l'État : l'exemple du Guatemala /." Paris ; Montréal (Québec) ; Budapest [etc.] : l'Harmattan, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377056592.

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Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Sci. polit.--Aix-Marseille 3, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Transnationalité, engagement humanitaire, politique publique, interaction entre les activités des ONG (Organisations non gouvernementales) et la mise en oeuvre de l'action publique des États, l'exemple du Guatemala.
Bibliogr. p. 265-289. Glossaire.
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Bertrand, Michel. "Terre et société coloniale : les communautés maya-quiché de la région de Rabinal du XVIe au XIXe siècle /." Mexico : Paris : Centre d'études mexicaines et centraméricaines ; diff. de Boccard, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34947994n.

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House, Krista Lynn. "Absent ones who are always present, migration, remittances, and household survival strategies in Guatemala." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0005/MQ42631.pdf.

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Karlen, Stefan. "Paz, Progreso, Justicia y Honradez : das Ubico-Regime in Guatemala 1931-1944 /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355230451.

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Kurnick, Sarah. ""The dead are fed with fragrance" a study of Maya censers from the Guatemala highlands /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://thesis.haverford.edu/184/01/2006KurnickS.pdf.

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Forné, Mélanie. "La cronología cerámica de La Joyanca, Noroeste del Petén, Guatemala /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41000758v.

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García, Giráldez Teresa. "La emigración vasca a Centroamérica, 1750-1800 las redes familiares como estructuras de poder en Guatemala /." Madrid : Ed. de la Universidad autónoma de Madrid, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39092562w.

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Tesis doct.--Departamento de historia moderna--Madrid--Universidad autónoma, 1993.
La couv. porte en plus : "Facultad de filosofía y letras, historia moderna" Bibliogr. p. 539-570. Résumés en espagnol et en anglais.
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Sancho, Ribés María Lledó. "Regina José Galindo: la performance como arma." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403878.

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¿Qué sucedería si las obras de arte contemporáneo tuviesen el efecto real e inmediato de hacer cambiar las actitudes humanas más deleznables? Precisamente ese es el deseo de Regina José Galindo cuando realiza sus performances: hacer posible a la acción artística como motor de cambio para las sociedades. Quien lea estas líneas y se mueva aún en la franja del cinismo le daremos razones de sobra en este libro para que vuelva a tener esperanza en el arte como plataforma educadora. Si Galindo ha sabido entender, procesar y hacer posible la empatía tanto en ella como en el público que la observa ejecutar sus performances, ¿por qué no sería trasladable ese poder a cada persona que visionara su obra? Las mujeres artistas latinoamericanas ha tenido el valor de denunciar los hechos que nos hacen retroceder como sociedad consciente y responsable. Mediante un medio tan universal y poderoso como el objetivo de una cámara analizan, igual que hacemos en este volumen, el empoderamiento que el arte da las personas y los retos que deberemos superar para convertirnos en la especie global y empática que dicen que somos. Para ello, la performance será un arma creadora.
What would happen if the works of contemporary art had real and immediate effect to change the most despicable human attitudes? Precisely this is Regina José Galindo's desire when she does her performances: to make possible the artistic action as engine of society's change. People who read these lines and still move in the band of the cynicism we will give them reasons in this book for them to believe in art as an educational platform. If Galindo has could deal, process and make possible the empathy in her as in the public who observes it to execute his performances, why would not this power be removable to every person who is viewing her artworks? Latin American women artists have had the courage to denounce the facts that make us move back backwards as a conscious and a responsible society. By means of an universal and powerful way such as a camera lend they analyze, like we actually do in this essay, the empowerment which art gives to people and the challenges we will have to overcome to turn into the global and empathic species they say we really are. Therefore, performance will be a creative weapon.
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Chandler, David Lee. "Juan José de Aycinena : idealista conservador de la Guatemala del siglo XIX /." Antigua (Guatemala) : South Woodstock (Vt.) : Centro de investigaciones regionales de Mesoamérica ; Plumsock Mesoamerican studies, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36150535f.

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Birk, Fridolin. "Kommunikation, Distanz und Organisation : dörfliche Organisation indianischer Kleinbauern im westlichen Hochland Guatemalas /." Tübingen : Geographisches Institut, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37642474b.

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Matamoros, Alas Virginia. "Support and protection for Human Rights Defenders : To what extent can the international instruments and their corresponding mechanisms provide support and protection for HRDs, especially those that are submitted to criminal prosecution within the national legal systems?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295334.

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This study has aimed at examining the nature and function of the support and protection that is offered and provided to human rights defenders trough a selected few international as well as regional human rights instruments and mechanisms, among them the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders as well as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In order to conduct such a study in a fairly limited and concrete way a number of cases were selected of human rights defenders who have undergone or are currently undergoing criminal prosecution and are incarcerated in Guatemala. The selection was based on the notion that apart from murder, criminal prosecution and incarceration of human rights defenders constitutes one of the most harmful and effective ways to actively hinder the continuance of valuable human rights work. Consequently, it impedes the promotion, implementation and protection of human rights on a general level. In regards to this States such as Guatemala have found ways to circumvent their international human rights duties by allowing others or themselves to label human rights defenders as criminal and violent actors, thus taking away the legitimate aspect of their roles and functions when it comes to promoting and safeguarding the enjoyment and exercise of human rights. The examined cases were meant to shed light on the situation for defenders in Guatemala but most importantly they were meant to illustrate a context in which one can examine the role and function that international human rights instruments and mechanisms have to combat such types of situations. The study found that although the concerned instruments and mechanisms such as the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the EU-guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights have a positive, important and impacting role in providing support to human rights defenders they have not yet reached/obtained the function of preventing persecution of human rights defenders, most notably of the legal kind. Since these mechanisms can only recommend but not force States to recognize and treat advocates of rights as “human rights defenders” their role and function for this specific purpose becomes less effective. All is not negative however, and the instruments and mechanisms that exist today are an illustration of the ambitions of States to follow international human rights principles and standards, at least to some extent.
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Estrada, Belli Francisco. "The evolution of complex societies in Southeastern pacific coastal Guatemala : a regional GIS archaeological approach /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400166521.

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Golob, Timothy Adam. "Human Trafficking from Southern Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala: Why These Victims are Trafficked into Modern Day Florida." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5026.

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Florida is ranked as one of the United States' top three destination states for human trafficking; many of those victims originate from Mesoamerica--Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Human trafficking is a growing problem which hinders universal human rights for hundreds of new victims in Florida every year. Mesoamericans have a high risk of becoming victims due to the situations in their home countries. The issue of human trafficking has only recently gained the national and state attention of law makers and law enforcement officers. This study uses several human trafficking cases to educate and exemplify why Mesoamerican victims are selected and how human trafficking takes place in Florida. The results of this study demonstrate that traffickers use their knowledge of victims and victims' societies to lure and then enslave them into sex and labor trafficking. This research uses criminal cases to illustrate the conditions of the enslavement of human trafficking victims, the methods used by the traffickers, and the culmination of the court cases for both victims and perpetrators. Furthermore, it provides points of discussion to initiate future research and to guide legislature and law enforcement in methods to end this barrier to universal human rights.
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Asselbergs, Florine Gabriëlle Laurence. "Conquered conquistadors : the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, a Nahua vision of the conquest of Guatemala /." Leiden : CNWS Publications, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39970797r.

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Thesis Ph. D.--Universiteit Leiden, 2004.
Ouvrage en anglais avec son résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr. p. 275-293. Contient une reproduction en couleur (48 x 64 cm) du document Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, pliée dans une pochette, en fin d'ouvrage.
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Avelar, Ana Sofia. "Single and Mixed Infections of Plant RNA and DNA Viruses are Prevalent in Commercial Sweet Potato in Honduras and Guatemala." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578609.

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Sweet potato is one of the 15 most important food crops worldwide. At least 30 different virus species, belonging to different taxonomic groups affect sweet potato. Little is known about the viruses present in sweet potato crops in Central America, which is the primary origin of sweet potato. The objective of this study was to design and implement primers for use in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) to identify and survey the diversity of plant viruses infecting sweet potato in Honduras and Guatemala. Primers were designed and used to amplify, clone, and sequence a taxonomically informative fragment of the coat protein (CP) gene for whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (herein, sweepoviruses) and potyviruses, and of the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) for the Crinivirus, Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV). The partial genome sequences were used for identification based on phylogenetic relationships with reference sequences available in the GenBank database. All three of the plant virus groups identified in this study were found to occur either in single or in multiple infections. Results of the sequence analyses indicated that the genomic regions amplified in this study were capable of discriminating among potyvirus species, and strains of SPCSV. With respect to potyvirus, all isolates were identified as Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) species, except for two, which grouped phylogenetically with Sweet potato virus G (SPVG) and Sweet potato virus C (SPVC). All sweepoviruses detected in sweet potato plants belonged to a single phylogenetically, well-supported group that contains all other previously described geminiviruses (sweepoviruses) associated with sweet potato or closely related host species. These results demonstrate that the primers designed for amplification of plant virus species commonly recognized to infect sweet potato, effectively detected the viruses singly and in mixtures from symptomatic plants, and that the resultant fragment, when subjected to cloning and DNA sequenced, was phylogenetically informative at the species and/or strain levels, depending on the virus group.
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Broughton, Katherine. "Cuentos de resistencia y supervivencia: Revitalizando la cultura maya a traves del arte publico en Guatemala." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556561584195135.

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Muñoz, Cosme Gaspar. "Templo I de Tikal : arquitectura y restauración /." Oxford : J. and E. Hedges, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41005639h.

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Tallet, Laurent. "Les trajectoires du pouvoir dans une communauté Maya K'iché du Guatemala : rapports de sens et rapports de force /." Paris ; Montréal (Québec) ; Budapest [etc.] : l'Harmattan, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37735816z.

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Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Sociol.--Paris 8, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Le pouvoir local dans une commune à majorité indigène du Guatemala : histoire, enjeux, stratégies et représentations.
Bibliogr. p. 245-253.
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Salzman, Catherine C. "Central American Media: A Comparative Study of Media Industries in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9039/.

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The five countries that lie on the isthmus connecting North and South America have endured a past of colonialism, civil war, and natural disaster. As these countries evolve in the 21st century, growing economies and political peace provide a promising outlook for the citizens of these nations. The media industries in these nations have varying levels of development which are explored in this thesis. Using Michael Porter's 1990 framework and a case study methodology, this thesis explores the differences and similarities of media industries in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and what may be done to ensure future success in an increasingly global world.
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Simon-Labric, Thibaud. "Evolution du refroidissement, de l'exhumation et de la topographie des arcs magmatiques actifs : exemple des North Cascades (USA) et de zone de faille Motagua (Guatemala)." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00591413.

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Cette thèse cible l'étude de la structure thermique de la croûte supérieure (<10km) dans les arcs magmatiques continentaux, et son influence sur l'enregistrement thermochronologique de leur exhumation et de leur évolution topographique. Nous portons notre regard sur deux chaînes de montagne appartenant aux Cordillères Américaines : Les Cascades Nord (USA) et la zone de faille Motagua (Guatemala). L'approche utilisée est axée sur l'utilisation de la thermochronologie (U-Th-Sm)/He sur apatite et zircon, couplée avec la modélisation numérique de la structure thermique de la croûte. Nous mettons en évidence la variabilité à la fois spatiale et temporelle du gradient géothermique, et attirons l'attention du lecteur sur l'importance de prendre en compte la multitude des processus géologiques perturbant la structure thermique dans les chaînes de type cordillère, c'est à dire formées lors de la subduction océanique sous un continent.
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Jakel, Miriam Sari. "Youth weaving networks beyond community borders : lessons learned from Caja Lúdica, a community arts process and networking initiative in Guatemala." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/youth-weaving-networks-beyond-community-borderslessons-learned-from-caja-ludica-a-community-arts-process-and-networking-initiative-in-guatemala(ab0f6ec2-9a85-49e7-b3dc-23058a0b18ad).html.

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This thesis examines a youth community arts network and Caja Lúdica, one of its founder organisations, in post-conflict Guatemala, and argues that they not only temporarily create spaces of encounter and community but through their networking and exchange strategies have established a rhizomatic assemblage of practice characterised by its perseverance and its dispersed agency in different parts of the country. As such, the thesis asks the following main three questions: What are the practices of Caja Lúdica and the Community Arts Network in Guatemala; what are youth protagonists’ experiences; and what contribution can their practices make to debates on community arts in challenging environments but also in other parts of the world? By using Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome theory it highlights notions of networking, local protagonism and collectivity asks for more sustainable practice with youth and by introducing these terms into performance and community arts scholarship, where they are scarcely explored, it makes a critical contribution to these fields. A methodological approach based on rhizomatic notions has fostered the connection of a wide range of methods such as semi-structured interviews, participant observation, ‘following’ as a research method as well as photography, the latter two of which have been developed for researching this particular networking practice in Guatemala. By using a selected set of case studies, this investigation aims to grasp the diversity and dynamics of this practice, in particular its movement and expansion across community borders through its youth protagonists. These case studies include the exploration of a local youth group and their exchange activities as well as the observation of the Network’s collective rituals and public interventions. By doing so this thesis aims to emphasise the potential of youth as creative protagonists in challenging contexts and stresses the importance to further examine their potential and ability to resist marginalisation and contribute to the reconstruction of the social fabric in war-affected communities and beyond. It further proposes that a networking and more holistic approach to practice can foster more sustainable community arts processes, not just in terms of decreasing external funding dependency and determination, but also to establish a practice culture in and between initiatives based on collectivity, exchange and support, which becomes more important in times of austerity.
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Grandelis, Ileana. "Diagnostic du capital social communautaire : étude de cas de trois communautés rurales dans la zone de production de café de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala /." Montpellier : CIHEAM-IAMM, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41165233r.

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Thèse Master of science--Agronomie--Montpellier--Institut agronomique méditerranéen, 2006.
CIHEAM = Centre international des hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes. IAMM = Institut agronomique méditerranéen de Montpellier. Bibliogr. p. 150-154. Webliogr. p. 155. Résumé en français et en anglais.
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Anderson, Amy A. "The International Teacher to Teacher Exchange: A Context for Educator Transformation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538738/.

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This study examined how in-service teachers transformed professionally and personally as a result of participation in the International Teacher to Teacher Exchange Program (ITTTE). Six teachers, 3 from the U.S. and 3 from Guatemala, were paired. Each pair spent a total of 8 weeks together, in each other's countries, over the course of 2 years. The pairs reciprocated home stays, school engagement, and cultural learning in three cohorts; 2012-2014, 2014-2016, 2016-2018. In 2018, each participant engaged in a structured interview tailored to the ten meaning phases of Mezirow's transformative learning theory (TLT). The data were analyzed deductively, through the application of the ten meaning phases of transformation. The data were also analyzed inductively to determine additional themes of transformation. The deductive findings revealed 5 out of 6 participants experienced full transformative learning. All 3 Guatemalan teachers transformed professionally with new understandings of mathematics pedagogy. Two U.S. teachers transformed personally, one by learning how to be a more caring teacher and the other by overcoming shyness to engage as a relational teacher. The third U.S. teacher adopted the point of view that speaking a second language had value. The inductive analysis revealed emerged themes of learning, language, relationships, and program affecting others as evident in transformed frames of reference, habits of mind and points of view. Due to the range of participation years, latent effects were noted. The ITTTE was shown to influence transformation in teachers' personal and professional development. TLT was effective in revealing participant transformation within the ITTTE.
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Henderson, Lucia. "Bodies politic, bodies in stone : imagery of the human and the divine in the sculpture of Late Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21977.

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Bulldozed, effaced, and paved over by the buildings and winding streets of Guatemala City, the vast majority of the archaeological remains of Kaminaljuyú are now lost to us. This early site, which reached its peak during the Late Preclassic period (ca. 300BC-250AD), was once the largest and most influential site of the Maya highlands and one of the most important sites of early Mesoamerica. This dissertation, begun as an art historical salvage project, is at once documentary and analytical. It not only focuses on recording and preserving the Late Preclassic bas-relief stone sculptures of Kaminaljuyú through accurate technical drawings, but also provides cautious and detailed analyses regarding what this iconography can tell us about this ancient site. In essence, the following chapters approach, flesh out, and describe the bodies of Late Preclassic Kaminaljuyú---the stone bodies, the divine bodies, and the human bodies that interacted with them across the built landscape. They discuss topics like human sacrifice, the Principal Bird Deity, and the myriad supernatural forms related to water and wind at Kaminaljuyú. They consider the noisiness of performance, the sensory impact of costumed rulers, and the ways in which these kings utilized the mythical, supernatural, and divine to sustain their rule. In addition to untangling the complex iconography of these early sculptures, these chapters give voice to the significance of these stones beyond their carved surfaces. They contemplate the materiality of stone and the ways in which the kingly body and sculpted monuments were inscribed, made meaningful, and performed to establish and maintain ideological, socio-political, and economic structures. In essence, then, these chapters deal with the interwoven themes of stone and bone and flesh and blood; with the structuring of human, sculpted, and divine bodies; and with the performative role these bodies shared as transformative spaces where extraordinary things could happen. In other words, this dissertation not only addresses stone carvings as crucial points of access into the belief structures and political strategies of Kaminaljuyú, but as active participants in the social, economic, and ideological processes that shaped human history at this ancient site.
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Bernatz, Michele Mae 1955. "The concept of divinity in Maya art." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/13122.

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Rossi, Franco Dellarocca. "The brothers Taaj: civil-religious orders and the politics of expertise in Late Maya statecraft." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15750.

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In this dissertation, I examine the political organization of Maya states during the Classic period (AD 550-950) through the workings of an institutional order whose practices came to light in excavations at Xultun, Guatemala. Archaeological, artistic, and epigraphic evidence shows that members of this order, called Taaj, lived, worked and instructed others at a household compound called Los Sabios. Members specialized in indigenous Maya sciences and high-level ritual that were instrumental in the organized, astronomically-timed public ceremonies and crafted spectacles by which local sovereigns communicated and maintained political authority. The Taaj order first surfaced on a mural found within a small, central structure of Los Sabios. The artist(s) depicted three male Taaj members and two novices dressed in uniforms and labeled with ranked titles, with a high-ranking Taaj gesturing in ritual toward the enthroned ruling sovereign as the other Taaj look on. The mural also served as a palimpsest for scientific and astronomical calculations painted over and around the figures of the scene. Eventually, residents closed off this mural room and converted it into a mausoleum under which they buried a man dressed in the same uniform as the Taaj depicted on the mural. As household sub-floor burials were typical among the Maya, this discovery affirms that these Taaj resided at Los Sabios. Papermaking tools found throughout the residence suggest the Taaj recorded their scientific and ritual knowledge in barkpaper books. Such tools were also found buried with a woman at Los Sabios, showing her key role in creating books alongside the Taaj, despite her omission from the mural. Taaj has long been overlooked as a title, but my reconsideration of the term as it occurs elsewhere reveals its widespread use as such and indicates these Taaj figures existed throughout Maya area. These discoveries shed unexpected new light on governance and social organization among the Maya. Together, they reveal a political structure in which rulers relied on the expertise and secret knowledge of the Taaj to help sustain local systems of sovereignty as well as forms of class-based inequality that characterized Classic Maya society until the time of its collapse.
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Mugabe, Millicent. "A proposed framework act for food security in South Africa / Millicent Mugabe." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15451.

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South Africa is characterised by high levels of poverty and inequality. Often poor households suffer inadequate or unstable food supplies as well as poor nutrition. Food insecurity is exacerbating due to inter alia high food prices, high living costs, land reform programmes, political instability as well as continuing population and consumption growth. Climate change also has a significant impact on food security for future generations, due to the seasonal shifts and temperature changes. Food insecurity affects the enjoyment of the right to food. Section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution, provides for a right to food and section 27(2) provides the constitutional mandate of the state to take legislative measures for the realisation of this right. As to date of this study, South Africa has not as yet enacted a food security framework act as legislative measure for the progressive realisation of the right to have access to sufficient food. The principal objective of this study is accordingly to propose provisions that may be necessary for inclusion in a proposed South African Food Security Framework Act. Various aspects relating to the right to food, food security and framework legislation, is discussed in order to establish the need for a food security framework law in South Africa. Subsequently, provisions from similar South African framework legislation (namely the National Housing Act 107 of 1997 and the National Health Act 63 of 2003) are distilled in order to identify provisions that are common in framework legislation for the realisation of other qualified socio-economic rights. The legislative guidelines of the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organizations (FAO) are then considered in order to identify and discuss the provisions (food related and general in nature) that the FAO deems necessary for inclusion in a food security framework act. Thereafter, the food framework acts of Brazil and Guatemala are outlined in order to determine what provisions other jurisdictions have included in their food security framework acts. The study concludes with recommendations of provisions (according to the findings of the various sections) for inclusion in the proposed South African Food Security Framework Act.
LLM (Environmental Law and Governance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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Waters, Emily Ann. "Transmission and tourism : the effects of globalization on how and why Maya backstrap weaving is taught." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21508.

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The initial purpose of this study was to explore how tourism in Guatemala is affecting indigenous weavers, weaving practices, and the transmission of weaving knowledge and experience from the current generation of Guatemalans to the next. Through extended on-site study and interviews with weavers in three towns in Guatemala—San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Antigua, and Santiago Zamora—it was learned that weaving practices in Guatemala are much more culturally and socially complex than what is disclosed on the surface. This study revealed that the transmission of weaving practices between generations is influenced significantly by the growing effects of globalization. Not only is globalization shaping the emerging generation’s participation in weaving in Guatemala, but it was seen in this study that prevalent global ideas and practices are also molding education, clothing styles, entertainment, economics, technology, and social media within the current younger generation of Guatemalans. These growing influences on Guatemalan society contribute to a diminished interest in weaving and perceived need for weavers in this country, and are thus constricting the transmission of local Maya culture from past generations to the next. This research was a combination of the weavers’ stories and my own journey through the cultural complexities found in three Guatemalan towns in order to reveal a rich and purposed view of current cultural practices of weaving in Guatemala.
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