Here, Our Culture is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Here, Our Culture is Hard Marriage among the Maya of Central America is a model of complementarity between a man and a woman. This union demands mutual respect and mutual service. Yet some husbands beat their wives. This book examines the lives of several Mopan Maya women in Belize. It explores Mayan women's strategies for enduring, escaping, and avoiding abuse.
Full description- Publisher: University of Texas Press
- Published: 25 August 2001
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Regional Studies | Domestic Violence | Gender Studies: Women | Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography | Coping With Personal Problems | Family & Relationships
- ISBN 13: 9780292752498 ISBN 10: 0292752490
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Full description for Here, Our Culture is Hard
Marriage among the Maya of Central America is a model of complementarity between a man and a woman. This union demands mutual respect and mutual service. Yet some husbands beat their wives. In this pioneering book, Laura McClusky examines the lives of several Mopan Maya women in Belize. Using engaging ethnographic narratives and a highly accessible analysis of the lives that have unfolded before her, McClusky explores Mayan women's strategies for enduring, escaping, and avoiding abuse. Factors such as gender, age inequalities, marriage patterns, family structure, educational opportunities, and economic development all play a role in either preventing or contributing to domestic violence in the village. McClusky argues that using narrative ethnography, instead of cold statistics or dehumanised theoretical models, helps to keep the focus on people, "rehumanising" our understanding of violence. This highly accessible book brings to the social sciences new ways of thinking about, representing, and studying abuse, marriage, death, gender roles, and violence. Laura J. McClusky, Ph.D., is an adjunct faculty member at SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo State College, and Erie Community College.
