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Women in Santa Eulalia, Guatemala through the Concepts of Rootedness, Community, and Migration.
This essay explores the experiences of Maya Q’anjob’al women in the villages of Santa Eulalia in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Women from eleven communities participated in group interviews during the four months I spent conducting fieldwork in 2024, thus building upon my findings from 2022 and 2023. Questions focused on their daily lives, their connections to people and places, strategies for generating income, and the impact of migration on their lives and the community. Two broad themes emerged from the interviews. The first relates to their relationships to the land and community, and how this rootedness supports a wholistic (Indigenous) sense of well-being, including economic possibilities. The second theme that emerged centered on their experiences with migration. The women shared intimate stories of coping with the pain and uncertainty of losing contact with loved ones, family breakdown, and abandonment. Their rootedness to their spiritual beliefs and practices, as well as family agreements, accompany them as they face fear and injustice.
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- Discussion19 December 2025
Flores de Caña: Documental
García Ortega, Martha. (2024). Flores de Caña. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. https://youtu.be/W3Yv_gOT_EQ?si=nHK-70sEa22tZUFO Dirección: Martha García Ortega Fotografía: Marco Girón y Martha García Ortega Edición y posproducción: Meztli Vianey Suárez Mc Liberty Reseña por Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez Universidad de Colima - Front Matter19 December 2025
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Includes Cover Art and Table of Contents - Full Issue19 December 2025
Full Issue - Maya America V7, I2
Full issue of Maya America, volume 7, issue 2. - Literature and Stories19 December 2025
El Último Viaje
Gaspar le hizo una oferta a la revista: publicar uno de los capítulos de su último libro, Hojas de Onoño. El capítulo, titulado El Último Viaje, narra el último viaje de un anciano a la comunidad de su juventud, ubicada en el departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala. De forma lírica y metafórica, el autor describe cómo se desvanecen los recuerdos y la tristeza por las personas que ya no están. El poeta Daniel Caño escribió una breve reacción personal a la historia que incluimos al final de esta. - Discussion19 December 2025
Living Experiences of Indigenous Health Practice: Belizean Maya communities and Belize Migrants
Belize Maya communities, like many indigenous communities around the world, have long experienced challenges to maintaining health as they interface with an ever-expanding globalized model of development. This essay explores the relationship between traditional ecological practices and health in the context of a holistic understanding of what makes healthy bodies, healthy communities and healthy lives. Using the author’s Embodied Ecological Heritage (EEH) framework and a phenomenological lens, the essay shares how sensory experiences become embodied through everyday practice, promoting health and general wellbeing. This grounded theory, developed in and with Maya communities, helps us understand ways to consider and support health without identifying or isolating particular aspects of health. This holistic approach demonstrates how physical health is not simply connected to mental health and the social aspects of health but that all aspects of health are deeply integrated across individual bodies, communities and ever-changing ecologies. - Discussion19 December 2025
Maya Health in the Days of Deportation Discussion and the case example of Colectivo Vida Digna, Guatemala
Health inequalities and health racism have a long history in the Americas, as in Guatemala and the United States. Drawing upon testimonies and case examples from the Maya non-profit Colectivo Vida Digna [Guatemala]. Barillas-Chon reveals how some Maya in Guatemala have organized to overcome historic and current challenges and are now working with Maya who have returned from the US.