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'No book on this topic has approached the thoroughness and raw impact of Victoria Sandford's Buried Secrets.' - Christian Parenti, San Diego Union-Tribune
'...Sanford critically and eloquantly documents the U.S. sponsored violations of human rights in Guatemala.' - Lilliana Patricia Sandeman, San Antonio Express-News
'This landmark book reaches out to those who are trying to understand Guatemala...' - Jim Przepasniak, El Paso Times
'Victoria Sanford leads us into a powerful and heartbreaking history of testimonies. Her journey into this war zone ... is clear-eyed, haunting and, above all, close to the ground.' - Michael Ondaatje, Author of Anil's Ghost
'The genocide in Guatemala and how survivors have dealt with it constitutes, in Victora Sanford's gripping and compassionate tale, a crucial lesson in ways in which to keep memory and hope alive.' - Ariel Dorfman, Author of Death and the Maiden
About the author
Victoria Sanford is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. She is a member of the anthropology doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Stanford University where she studied International Human Rights Law and Immigration Law at Stanford Law School. She was a Bunting Peace Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Buried Secrets
Book Subtitle: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala
Authors: Victoria Sanford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973375
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52617-8Published: 02 May 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7337-5Published: 02 May 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 313
Topics: Latin American Culture, European Politics, History of the Americas, Sociology, general, Human Rights, Anthropology