Challenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's did so because they were caught in the crossfire between the guerillas and the army, not because revolutionary violence expressed community aspirations.

Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala

History

Stoll, David

Americas

Columbia University Press

Is Latin America Turning Protestant?: The Politics of Evangelical Growth

Protestants are making phenomenal gains in Latin America. This is the first general account of the evangelical challenge to Catholic predominance, with special attention to the collision with liberation theology in Central America. David Stoll reinterprets the "invasion of the sects" as an evangelical awakening, part of a wider religious reformation which could redefine the basis of Latin American politics.

World

University of California Press

This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical I, Rigoberta Menchú, her words brought the Guatemalan army's atrocities to world attention and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. Five years later, as her country's civil war ended and truth commissions prepared their reports, the Nobel laureate seemed to repudiate the life story that made her famous. That is not my book,” she said, accusing its editor, Elisabeth Burgos, of distorting her testimony.Why the disclaimer? One reason was the anthropologist interviewing other violence survivors in her home town. In Rigoberta Menchú and The Story of All Poor Guatemalans, David Stoll uses their recollections and archival sources to establish a different portrait of the laureate's village and the violence that destroyed it. Like the imagery surrounding Ché Guevara, Rigoberta's 1982 story served the ideological needs of the urban left and kept alive the grand old vision of Latin American revolution. It shaped the assumptions of foreign human rights activists and the new multicultural orthodoxy in North American universities. But it was not the eyewitness account it purported to be, and enshrining it as the voice of the voiceless caricatured the complex feelings of Guatemalan Indians toward the guerrillas who claimed to represent them. At a time when Rigoberta's people were desperate to stop the fighting, her story became a way to mobilize foreign support for a defeated insurgency.By comparing a cult text with local testimony, Stoll raises troubling questions about the rebirth of the sacred in postmodern academe. Far from being innocent or moral, he argues, organizing scholarship around simplistic images of victimhood can be used to rationalize the creation of more victims. In challenging the accuracy of a widely-hailed account of Third World oppression, this book goes to the heart of contemporary debates over political correctness and identity politics.

Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Westview Press

Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was "the story of all poor Guatemalans." By turning herself into an everywoman, she became a powerful symbol for 500 years of indigenous resistance to colonialism. Her testimony, I, Rigoberta Menchú, denounced atrocities by the Guatemalan army and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. But her story was not the eyewitness account that she claimed. In this hotly debated book, key points of which have been corroborated by the New York Times, David Stoll compares a cult text with local testimony from Rigoberta Menchú's hometown. His reconstruction of her story goes to the heart of debates over political correctness and identity politics and provides a dramatic illustration of the rebirth of the sacred in the postmodern academy. This expanded edition includes a new foreword from Elizabeth Burgos, the editor of I, Rigoberta Menchú, as well as a new afterword from Stoll, who discusses Rigoberta Menchú's recent bid for the Guatemalan presidency and addresses the many controversies and debates that have arisen since the book was first published.

Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans: New Foreword by Elizabeth Burgos

Routledge

At last, a book for all women focusing on women's skin care and skin problems! Whatever your age, your skin type, your lifestyle, David Stoll, M.D. gives you the up-to-date medical information you need to keep your skin healthy. In a clear, friendly way, with plenty of real-life examples of people he has treated, Dr. Stoll tells you about the common and unusual skin conditions that women encounter and helps you alert the men and children in your life about their skin problems as well.
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<li>Skin changes and problems in pregnancy--how to deal with them (one in five pregnant women seeks help for a skin problem!)</li>
<li>The new cosmetics--do they work?</li>
<li>Tips on everyday care of your skin, hair, nails</li>
<li>How the skin of a woman differs from a man's</li>
<li>How your skin changes over your lifetime</li>
<li>Cosmetic surgery--what to ask, what to expect</li>
<li>Acne, warts, rashes, infections, itches, allergic reactions--how you can deal with these and a host of other common skin problems</li>
<li>How your skin reflects underlying health problems</li>
<li>Skin problems that are unique to women</li>
<li>Skin cancer--how to avoid it</li>
<li>How sexually transmitted diseases affect the skin</li>
<li>Unusual skin problems--symptoms you should watch out for</li>
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A Woman's Skin

Medical Books

Rutgers University Press

Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire?

Religion & Spirituality

Zed Books

Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? : The Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America

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