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Fear is understandable in a country that feels like a "baroque game of chess played with bodies," says Francisco Goldman, whose book The Art of Political Murder details the 1998 assassination of Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi, who was bludgeoned to death after issuing a report on army massacres during the civil war. In a nation where just 2% of last year's 6,200 murders were solved, "impunity opens doors to murderous imaginations," says Goldman...
...event geared towards adults, which featured live music from Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, the Mexican roots band La Tuza, and salsa dancing. The Peabody has hosted festivities to commemorate the occasion, which means “The Day of the Dead” in English, since 2002. Pamela Gerardi, a spokeswoman for the museum, said yesterday that the event was the one of the more successful “Dias” that the Peabody has held. “Every year it gets a bit bigger,” she said. “We expect to have...
...presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder and jailed in 2001, Guatemalan-American writer Francisco Goldman...
...images on display also recall the larger context of physical anthropology, especially anthropometry, the study of human body measurements. As Peabody Director of External Relations Pamela Gerardi explains, the exhibit highlights the photos as anthropology, not art. They were taken in pre-Franz Boas era, before modern anthropology’s focus on cultural rather than race as the defining factor in the differences among peoples...
...Dewachi, the images in his first exhibit tell a fascinating story of both a lost culture and an early form of anthropology. This duality will be echoed in subsequent displays. Gerardi hopes to showcase a series of four exhibits a year, each displaying part of the Peabody’s huge photographic collection. The collection could even be said to trace the history of anthropology itself, as the Peabody is one of the oldest anthropological museums in the world...