Tecun uman biography books

Son of Tecún Umán

Originally Published: Tucson The University of Arizona Press

Second Edition: Waveland Press, Inc.

Prospectus Heights, Illinois

From the backs of the first two printings:

Abandoned at birth in an isolated, agrarian town on the shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán comes of age early.  He shares with us his labors and his loves, and we see how his life--like that of his peers, evolves into a daily struggle to support a family.  Through political intrigues of village life, calamitous effects of earthquakes, and even the monotony of living from which he escapes into alcohol, we share the private thoughts of a man who still maintains pride in being a Maya--a "son of Tecún Umán."

It was anthropologist James Sexton who convinced Ignacio that he should commit his story to paper.  Through his autobiography and diary, we learn what it is like to grow up amid poverty and illiteracy even while the vagaries of the twentiet