Barriers to Healthcare Access Faced by Indigenous Women in the Guatemalan Highland
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily A. Kragel
Logan N. Beyer
David L. Boyd
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 1, A Barrier-free Health System for Indigenous Communities, August 2018, pp. 104-121
Description
Data collected from 15 study participants living in three different communities indicates a hierarchy of barriers with the barrier of geography appearing to be the first and most difficult to overcome. Subsequent barriers include cost, perceived quality of care, trust of medical provider and available time.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 157-166
Description
Author describes her experience conducting ethnographic research with Indigenous Tz’utujil residents of Santiago Atitlán, as they navigate the growing tourism industry in their town.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 7-90
Description
Compares grassroots Mayan languages revitalization movements in Belize and Guatemala/Mesoamerica; considers the academic and publishing communities’ marginalization of Belize language revitalization efforts and the effects on Kriol and Mopan dialects, and the socioeconomic and geopolitical factors at play in the language landscape of Belize.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, vol. 5, no. 1 & 2, 2009, p. 39–54
Description
Discusses the evolution of technologies used to restore and create space to preserve languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 179-199
Description
Provides a close reading with literary cricism of González’s novel which is set during the Guatemalan civil war. Author examines the Maya responses to this conflict in the context of the social, political, and economic factors, and discusses issues of cultural revitalization, Maya self-determination, education and leadership.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 31-62
Description
Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).