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Voces e imagenes: Mujeres Maya Ixiles de Chajul
Voces e imagenes: Mujeres Maya Ixiles de Chajul
Mayan Ixil researchers, photographers and authors of PhotoVoice
(Las investigadoras, fotografas y autoras Maya Ixiles de FotoVoz)
Ana Caba Mateo Engracia Reyna Mendoza Caba
María Caba Caba Engracia Pacheco Asicona
Rosa Caba Caba Ana Pérez Sanchez
Juana Caba Ramírez Maria Pérez Sanchez
María Teresa Canay H Catarina Pérez Asicona
Rosa Canay Ortega María Tui Itzep
Jacinta Chávez Anay Juana Utuy Itzep
Juana Chávez Pacheco Rosa Xinic Batz
Isabel Ana Laynez Caba Manuela Xinic Batz
Petronila Lopez Batz Manuela Mendoza Caba
Coordinator of PhotoVoice (Coordinadora de FotoVoz)
Juana Utuy Itzep
General coordinator of ADMI (Coordinadora general de ADMI)
Ana Caba Mateo
Association of Mayan Ixil Women (ADMI) - New Dawn
Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - AK' SAQB'EB'AL
Principal Investigator and coordinator of PhotoVoice (Investigadora Principal y Coordinadora General de FotoVoz)
M. Brinton Lykes
Voices and Images: Mayan Ixil Women of Chajul, a book in both Spanish and English with accompanying photos, is the outcome of a joint collaboration between a group of women living and working in a rural community in the Altiplano of Guatemala that has received support from the Ignacio Martín-Baró Initiative for Mental Health and Human Rights, and M. Brinton Lykes, co-founder of the Fund and one of its long-time supporters. Selections from the book are available here but may not be copied unless permission is secured from Brinton Lykes or the Women of ADMI.
Voices and Images: Mayan Ixil Women of Chajul, a book in both Spanish and English with accompanying photos, is the outcome of a joint collaboration between a group of women living and working in a rural community in the Altiplano of Guatemala that has received support from the Ignacio Martín-Baró Initiative for Mental Health and Human Rights, and M. Brinton Lykes, co-founder of the Fund and one of its long-time supporters. Selections from the book are available here but may not be copied unless permission is secured from Brinton Lykes or the Women of ADMI.
In 1992, the Martín-Baró Initiative provided a grant to ADMI in Chajul, Guatemala, when they identified the need for a corn mill. Their community had few mills and the women saw the opportunity to develop, manage, and run their own mill as a way to generate support for their developing organization, with which Brinton had collaborated, and which was formed to respond to women and child survivors of the nearly 36-year civil war in Guatemala. The project contributed to the women's self-esteem and helped launch them on a trajectory they discuss in text and illustrate with photos in the fourth chapter.
The 120-page volume, published in Guatemala in 2000 by MagnaTerra, contains photographs and text by 20 ADMI women who participated in a project they called PhotoVoice, a name borrowed from University of Michigan scholar Caroline Wang's work with rural women in China who used photography to document their health needs. The ADMI women used the methodology to document the effects of the war and political repression on themselves, their families, their community and its surrounding towns. The participatory action research methodology used in the project is described in the introductory chapter and in another co-authored chapter by Lykes and the Women of ADMI.
An interactive process of taking and analyzing photographs as well as interviewing the women, men, and children whose pictures they were taking continued for two years. During the second year, the women concentrated on winnowing through their analyses and photographs and organizing them into the four book chapters. These focus on the civil war's violence and its effects in their lives, their Maya Ixil culture, women's daily lives, and the work of ADMI as a response to the war and its effects. Textual discussion of each picture appears in both Spanish and English. Each page carries titles in Spanish, English and in Ixil, the mother tongue for most of the project participants.
An introductory chapter by Brinton Lykes describes this cross-cultural, cross-national collaboration. A final chapter includes excerpts from the life stories of women of Chajul. U.S. psychologist and activist Joan W. Williams, Ph.D., and Spanish psychologist M. Luisa Cabrera participated in the field project. Cathy Mooney, Ph.D., another long time Martín-baró Fund supporter, revised the Spanish text and translated it into English.
Collaborations/Colaboradoras
Collaborations/Colaboradoras
Researcher and Group Facilitator of PhotoVoice/Investigadora y Facilitadora grupal de FotoVoz
Joan W. Williams
Consulting Psychologist/Psicologa y asesora
M. Luisa Cabrera Pérez-Armiñan
Assistant to the Book's Design/Cuidado de la edición
Valia Garzón
And with support of/Y con el aporte de
Spanish to English translation and revision of Spanish text/Traducción del español al inglés; revisión del texto español:
Catherine M. Mooney
English to Spanish translation/Traducción de inglés a español
Megan Thomas
Revision of English Translation/Revisión de la traducción del español al inglés
Paula Worby
PhotoVoice was generously supported by the
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