Culture of Guatemala

In 1938 the Public Health Services in Guatemala published the Regulation of the Department of Sexual Prophylaxis and Venereal Disease, this manual provided policies that “open[ed] up horizons of moralizing and personal support” to regulate the “sexual problem” of commercial sex workers in Guatemala. This Public Health campaign ran parallel to the urbanization of Guatemala’s rural landscape during the 1930s and 1940s. Guatemala’s commercial sex workers were usually among the working class that…

which never got in touch with each other used the same abbrevational method. It must be a mecanism of the human brain that makes people from different times abbreviationing words the same way to overcome a linguistic problem. A international language culture therefore…

In contemporary Guatemala, many of those who identify as Mayan or have Mayan ancestry remain touched by the chaotic and bloody rule of General José Efraín Ríos Montt in the early 1980’s. His regime is noted to be the most violent in Guatemala’s already tumultuous history. The recent history of Guatemala included a relatively short democratic break, followed by multiple coups, dictatorships, and military-run governments. The cumulating rising tensions of the Mayan people equally endured the…

This story will be about the location, time periods, and capitals of the Mayans, Aztecs, and the Incas. Then I will compare and contrast the Economy, Religion, Social System, and Government. Then I will go over the end of each civilization, and its contributions. This is all about the Mayan, Aztec, and the Inca. The Mayan are very interesting and they were located in located in Mexico/ South America. They started to build buildings in Tikal,(which is a very important place for the…

classic period, and postclassic period. The total years they existed were from 2000 BC to 909 AD. That is a long time! Firstly, Maya people lived in a vast area; from northern Mexico down south into Central America. The location we now call Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. This area is part of a tropical rainforest. Their largest city was known as Tikal. The official language they spoke was the Yucatec Maya language. Secondly, Maya architecture was very impressive for those…

Guatemala suffered a thirty-six year period of armed conflict which came to an end signed peach accords in 1996. During that time period, 200,000 people were killed, 45,000 disappeared by force, a million people were displaced, along with 626 documented massacres, and 400 villages destroyed due to government operations according to the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH). Of those that were victimized, four out of five were indigenous Maya. After reviewing the statistics, the CEH…

Uaxactun is a sacred place of the ancient mayan people. Located in northern guatemala it was first explored by American archaeologists in 1916. The excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient…

Topic 1 Paper: Early Societies and Culture The ancient civilization of the Mayas originated around 2600 B.C. The Mayan civilization extended throughout present-day Southern Mexico. The society was best known for its development of hieroglyphic writing, astronomy, and calendrical systems. In addition, art and architecture were two main aspects of the Mayan community. The history of the civilization can be regarded to as a “rollercoaster”., as city-states both rose in glory, and fell…

American ideal of an opportunity for all. Furthermore, on June 8, 1995, my grandmother was born in a small city in Guatemala. In Guatemala, there was the wealthy, who had money and lived a great life, and there were the poor, the majority who lived in grueling poverty. Fortunately, my grandmother was born to a wealthy Guatemalan family with two younger sisters. She lived in the middle of Guatemala City with her family in an amiable home located in a quiet neighborhood. Her childhood consisted…

We have decided to greet the Mayans peacefully. The Mayans take us to one of their cities we watch an intense Pok-a-tok game. The two teams are playing the game so intensely because literally, their lives are on the line! Pok-a-tok is a kind of soccer and a kind of basketball game. The players use their hips, elbows, and wrists, which is so interesting because it almost impossible to get a goal. The game represents evil and good things, the court represents the universe, and the ball represents…