Lexington Books
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8355-7 • Hardback • October 2015 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-1-4985-2947-1 • Paperback • May 2017 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
978-0-7391-8356-4 • eBook • October 2015 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
James Phillips is adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and international studies at Southern Oregon University.
Acronyms and Organizations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1Encounters with Honduras: Resistance and Resilience
Chapter 2A Culture of Domination
Chapter 3Weapons of the Strong
Chapter 4Evolution of a Culture of Resistance
Chapter 5Patterns of Indigenous Resistance
Chapter 6Nourishing Resilience: Food, Environment, Community
Chapter 7The Legal Order: Challenging Judicial and Political Systems
Chapter 8Ancient Weapon of the People: Popular Culture
Chapter 9Spirits Helping Us: A Spiritual Struggle?
Chapter 10The United States Connection: Intervention, Solidarity, and Resistance
Chapter 11A Conclusion…or Is It?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Honduras did not receive much media attention until a 2009 military coup removed Manuel Zelaya’s elected government from power. Since then, the Central American country has been firmly at the forefront of Latin American activist and academic attention. Strong and well-organized popular resistance to the coup altered how many outside observers thought about the country. The resilience of this resistance, however, came as no surprise to anthropologist Phillips, who has accompanied social movements in that country for more than 40 years. In this important and compelling book, Phillips documents a range of Indigenous, religious, cultural, legal, and political forms of resistance to long-standing patterns of exploitation and domination. A final chapter examines US governmental intervention in Honduras, and international people-to-people solidarity movements that counter political and economic interference in the country’s internal affairs. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.
— CHOICE
Written with clarity and grace, Honduras in Dangerous Times does a beautiful job of evoking and analyzing social movements in modern Honduras. Phillips takes us deep into the Resistance movement that exploded in response to the 2009 coup, and its back story as well, with an especially rich understanding of the role of religion. At the same time he is able to pull back to larger theoretical questions in an accessible and compelling manner.
— Dana L. Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
After the 2009 coup d’état in Honduras, the massive oppositional movement that emerged surprised almost everyone. Working with four decades of experience in the country, James Phillips masterfully documents the cultures of resilience and resistance behind the struggle. This book is essential reading for understanding contemporary Central America.
— Mark Anderson, University of California, Santa Cruz