ANTH 272 Chapter Notes -United Fruit Company, Maternal Death, Democracy Now!
Document Summary
In nicole berry"s book unsafe motherhood: mayan maternal mortality and. Subjectivity in post-war guatemala provides an interesting look at the ways indigenous culture and tradition is undermined through a seemingly helpful and global initiative to reduce maternal mortality. Berry underscores how the 1996 peace accords continue to undermine indigenous mayan peoples, specifically pregnant women. Shifting the relationship between the government by their becoming the developers of social and cultural institutions and having indigenous populations become the clients of the policy changes has become a form of social control (136). Berry provides the example of reducing maternal mortality by the year 2000 as one of the policies signed into the accords that does not translate into helping the lives of everyday mayan women (135). Anthropology foundation reiterates berry"s points in his interview with democracy. Now! for the film granito: how to nail a dictator about the guatemalan civil war (democracy now!, 2011).
