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DESCRIPTION: Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which chronicled in compelling detail the violence and misery that she and her people suffered during her country's brutal civil war. The book focused world attention on. About Rigoberta Menchu: Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her on the 500th anniversary of the European colonization of the Americas, is a Guatemalan indigenous rights activist. The problem of translation was how to retain the vitality, and often beautiful simplicity, of Rigoberta’s words, but aim for clarity at the same time. I have tried, as far as possible, to stay with Rigoberta’s original phrasing; changing and reordering only where I thought the meaning could not be readily understood. Sep 20, 2015 I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu in CHM, DOC, FB2 download e-book. Welcome to our site, dear reader! All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it's content suppliers and protected by US and international copyright laws. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. The anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, herself a Latin American woman, conducted a series of interviews with Rigoberta Menchu. I Rigoberta Mench. These are the books for those you who looking for to read the I Rigoberta Mench, try to read or download Pdf/ePub books and some of authors may have disable the live reading.Check the book if it available for your country and user who already subscribe will have full access all free books from the library source.

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This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú , a young Guatemalan peasant woman. Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist wor..more

Published July 17th 1985 by Verso (first published 1983)

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Reading through some of the reviews written by others, I've found that David Stoll's indictment of Menchu for not adhering to the 'pure facts' is still alive and well in the academy. There seems to be a tendency to ignore some very important factors that lead to the creation of this book, particularly the genre, testimony, and the nature of memory itself.
Testimony, or testimonio, is a literary genre that in many cases (although certainly not all) involves a testimoniante (one who testifies) and..more

Aug 23, 2017Alex rated it it was amazing

If you go into this book without knowing what it is, there's sortof a plot twist halfway through that's one of the better ones I've read. It's a true story! I just didn't predict this woman's reaction to her life.
For the first half of the book, it's an oral history of a young peasant in Guatemala. She seems nice. Her life is desperate; she's poor and exploited by a racist government. She tells heartbreaking stories. Her baby brother was strapped to his mother's back as she worked on a finca (pla..more

Oct 02, 2007Anna rated it it was ok

This book is a memoir of Rigoberta Menchu's childhood and later years in Guatemala as an Indian woman. According to her story, she grew up uneducated in a small community with very strong rules and traditions. Her people, the Indians, were in conflict with the Ladinos (specifically the wealthy) for many years. As a result, her father, mother, and several siblings died.
After reading this book, I found out that she had fabricated many important details in the story. On the very FIRST page, she te..more

Jul 11, 2010Francesca Helm rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Had been looking for a book related to Guatemala as am travelling there and this seemed like an obvious one but got totally put off after reading various reviews. After talking to people here in Guatemala, who say despite any inaccuracies (lies critics say) and despite her subsequent political career which is also somewhat controversial here - her book really brought world attention to the Mayan cause and is an incredibly important book to read, I bought it. Though clearly not 'great literature'..more

Apr 15, 2009Max rated it did not like it

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This book with an incredibly uncreative title is a falsified memoir by Rigoberta Menchu. The book describes a poor family who was forced to work and work until they got fired and then the Guatemalan army came in and destroyed their lives. First, Rigo's brother got killed and tortured in a completely unsituational way, and then her father got killed. After that, her mother was caught and raped. Then, she had to run away to America. This book at first made me feel pity for the narrator but eventua..more

Jan 04, 2009Suzanne moodhe rated it really liked it

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I know all about the controversy - did she write the book? Didn't she? The point is that whether or not all of these things happened in particular to this one woman, Rigoberta Menchu, but whether or not they happened to not only her but women that she knew. I believe that this is a collection of events that happened all around her - and having lived in Guatemala for a short period and seen the reconstruction efforts of the Mayan people after the war that was waged on them during the 80's with Jo..more

Read this book a long time ago, when I was in Berkeley in the 1980s, it was kinda de rigeur. Just picked it up again from the bathroom reading pile in the house in Vancouver where I'm renting a room for the year (my new roomie is really active in native radical politics). I hadn't given much thought to the book since I heard the news that Menchu fictionalized certain parts of it, wanted to see if I still found it powerful. I did. Not so much for the politics, which even when I read it the first..more

Dec 08, 2011Florence rated it really liked it

This book recounts the life of a remarkable young peasant woman who endeavoured through exteme hardships, to make a political commitment to bring change to the lives of the Guatemalan people. Her father, an activist, her hard working mother and a young brother were all tortured & murdered by the military. The descriptions of injustices suffered leave the reader forever scarred.
Rigoberta learned Spanish so she would be able to tell her story. (one apparently common to most of the 23 Indian co..more

Nov 05, 2008Ashley rated it did not like it

This book is about an Indian women living in Guatemala. This book was ridiculously sad and later I learned that some of the events that took place didn't happen and that she over exaggerated which made me feel so betrayed because she's a liar and I don't like that. This book is an autobiography about her life and the hardships she had to overcome.

Sep 09, 2009Mir rated it it was ok

Recommends it for: people who enjoy their liberal white guilt

Shelves: realism, the-americas

I read this in Spanish for Spanish class. I may have been unduly hostile towards it because I knew ahead of time that it was not actually Menchu's autobiography.

Mar 09, 2018Jim rated it really liked it

Shelves: women-writers, biography, history, politics, guatemala

Rigoberta Menchú's I, Rigoberta Menchu - An Indian Woman In Guatemala is a combination autobiography and description of the Maya guerrilla movement that mobilized to combat the military government during the period of 1970-1996.
The book begins with detailed descriptions of a Quiché Maya upbringing, discussing the lives of men and women living in small rural altiplano villages. Gradually, as Ladino landowners employ the army to steal the land farmed by the Maya, and force them to pick coffee and..more

May 24, 2014Fiona rated it liked it

I once heard Ms Menchu speak at a conference. She was always smiling. How could she smile when she has lived a horrendous life?! So, I wanted to read her story.
This was written in 1982 (give or take a year) during the Guatemala's Civil War. This is her story about living and working in the antiplano (highlands) of Guatemala. It was a tough life. She had no formal schooling and she worked at such a young age. She had no childhood. She worked in the finca's (large estates growing cotton and coffee..more

Sep 06, 2007David rated it liked it

Shelves: 10th

one of those books that are sad and leaves nightmares. The book written by Rigoberta Menchu tells the world of the cruelty that went in Guatemala as the 'Silent Holocaust', a genocide upon the Indians in Guatemala. The conflict all start off when the new president took land from the rich to give to the poor as a civil rights movement, but a US Fruit company disliked the idea and took the US gov. that communist activity was going on in Guatemala, therefore triggered the genocide..
The peasants (i..more

Jan 09, 2010Rita rated it liked it

Shelves: set-in-other-countries, memoir-autobiography

In 1983 Elisabeth Burgos met the 23-year-old Rigoberta Menchu and spent a week interviewing her and made that into this book, which is partly autobiography and partly 'testimonial' speaking for the experience of the whole Indian community of Guatemala [[60% of the popul. is pure Mayan, tho divided into 3 language groups and many smaller subgroups:]. [Book transl. into English by Ann Wright.:]
Horrifying how the mountain peasants are exploited by plantation owners on the coasts, living in subhuman..more

This book is about Rigoberta, her family and her community. They were going through a harsh, grief and tragic time. They are Indians that lives high up in a mountain with no fertile lands. Oneday the landowners decided to get back their lands because the Indians started to have crops. Rigoberta and her community thought of traps that will prevent the people from coming into their lands. During this period, a lot of people stuffer from torture and death, including Rigoberta's mom, dad and brothe..more

This is the auto biography of an Indian woman who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1992. It tells about her life of severe poverty and harassment, killing and torture, of the Indian people by factions of the Guatemalan government that was engaged in civil war. She devoted her life to resistance and support for her people. She dictated the book to get it into print and get the message out to the world. Tragic but interesting and important message.

Dec 17, 2013Tari rated it did not like it

Recommended to Tari by: A sociology class

If I could give a book a -, I would. It was most frustrating to read this book for a class knowing that the horror written about was found to be a lie. Yuk! Plus, she won such an honor for a book that was untrue about her life. Pathetic!

Jun 04, 2018Letitia rated it it was amazing

This is both a beautiful and chilling personal narrative. Rigoberta begins with explanations of her Quiché culture and her family dynamic, transitioning into documentation of the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan government against indigenous peoples, and finally into the narrative of her own rise to activism and community mobilization. It is simply told, in the vocabulary of about 5th or 6th grade, since Rigoberta is speaking in her second or third language, which was of course translated..more

Aug 14, 2018Xandria rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1f-north-america, 2f-guatemala, indigenous, nonfiction, testimony, historical, favorites, war-lit

I think this has been one of the more important books I've read. Menchu goes into detail about the struggles Guatamalan indigenous people experience and the colonizing powers that be. The beginning of the book details her culture while the middle and end discuss the horrors that she and others have experienced.

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Mar 05, 2019aleks added it

Shelves: the-most-important-ones, thought-provoking, spanish-latin-american, controversial, eye-opening, university-reading, biographies-memoirs

Jul 09, 2019Johnny rated it really liked it

Amazing story. The two takeaways are that discounting the importance of grassworks organizing in favor of NGO work (do people do this? I mean, I guess I do implicitly) is cementheaded and that our government has blood in its hands that had been rendered largely invisible. I don’t think I talked about our “work” in Central America once in high school or college. Point two ties back to point one.
This book is hard to read. It’s clearly a transcribed, translated interview, and shouldn’t be anything..more

Apr 23, 2014Terri Lynn rated it it was ok · review of another edition

While I found the story interesting, this is supposed to be Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography and my standard for autobiography is that it should be TRUE and HONEST yet this is nothing but a pack of lies and that taints the story. I had to read this for a graduate school seminar and fortunately the university allowed us to write papers about the controversy rather than accept the book as factual.
A few years after the book came out, David Stoll (he has his doctorate from Stanford University) was..more

Dec 09, 2010Derek rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I fully recognize that Menchu's voice--conversational, unpretentious, emphatic--is what draws most readers to I, Rigoberta Menchu. At the same time, I found it the most grating aspect of the book, full as it was of contradictions, superlatives, and simply repetitive insistences on the positive aspects of her culture and the crimes committed by her country during the Guatemalan Civil War. Which isn't to say, of course, that I don't think she has every right to tell this story; the crimes she righ..more

Jan 05, 2011Liz rated it liked it

I took an anthropology seminar called Narrative Lives in which the first half of the semester was spent reading 3 life-histories followed by another book that evaluated, or bluntly stated, debunked much of the narrator and interviewer's credibility. I, Rigoberta Menchu was the third life-history we read, and I was completely touched by her eloquent story-telling, and her dreadfully touching and powerful struggle. I remember sitting outside, near done with the book, and dreading reading David Sto..more

It took me longer to get through this than I had anticipated- probably because of the controversy this book stirred regarding the authenticity of some of the contents. I kept putting it down for a few days, trying to decide if I wanted to continue (which I did.) It was a very interesting account of Rigoberta's life in rural Guatemala. She detailed the rich cultural life of her people, including descriptions of many rituals, ceremonies, and practices of the her indigenous group. It was quite inte..more

Mar 02, 2016Karen rated it really liked it

Rigoberta Menchu grew up in the Highlands of Guatemala and on the coffee and cotton plantations near the coast. When the landowners tried to take the peasant communities land away from them, Rigoberta's family became involved in organizing a way to protect the community. The Landowners were supported by the army and the government.
Soon Rigoberta was involved in a much wider anti-government movement, to get better and consistent wages for the peasants. Her father was killed by the army, and her m..more

A powerful narrative of the life of a fierce and brave young woman, whose passion and dedication for her people you can feel reverberating off the pages. Some reviewers complain about or questions its 'accuracy' but the story is told in the style of an oral history which I think is culturally appropriate, and thus does not aim for scientific accuracy. As stories are told and retold, the details might change slightly, but what is important is the message and the emotions, and in those aspects, th..more

May 27, 2014James Briggs rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book is a phenomenal book on equality, and natural human rights.
Living in Guatemala for two years, including more than a year with the Poqomchi and Q'eqchi' Indians I was really able to relate to this book and understand how real the fight for equality was and still is to some level.
However, at times it was a little hard to get into the story. But overall it was still a worth while read.

This is the story of one indigenous leader's struggles to work with her people to gain humane treatment from a cruel world. It is part memoir and part anthropological study. I found it quite interesting.

Sep 09, 2012Sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Really powerful book. Important insight into the struggles and oppression that still exist in modernity. Slavery has not been extinguished.

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Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish pronunciation: [riɣoˈβerta menˈtʃu], born 9 January 1959) is an indigenous Guatemalan woman, of the K'iche' ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. She received the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince o..more

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Menchú in 1998
Born	9 January 1959 (age 60) Laj Chimel, Quiché, Guatemala
Nationality	Guatemalan
Occupation	Activist, politician
Parent(s)	Juana Tum Kótoja Vicente Menchú Pérez
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 Prince of Asturias Awards in 1998 Order of the Aztec Eagle in 2010.
Website	Rigoberta Menchú Tum profile

Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) is a K'iche'political and human rights activist from Guatemala. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's indigenous feminists during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country.^[1]

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She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998, in addition to other prestigious awards. She is the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and the author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders (1998), among other works. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She has also become a figure in indigenous political parties and ran for President of Guatemala in 2007 and 2011^[1].

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Personal life[edit]

Rigoberta Menchú was born to a poor indigenous family of Q'iche' Maya descent in Laj Chimel, a rural areas in the north-central Guatemalan province of El Quiché.^[2] Menchú received a primary- and middle-school education as a student at several Catholic boarding schools.^{[citation needed]}

In 1979-80 her brother, Patrocinio, and her mother, Juana, were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Guatemalan army.^[1] Her father, Vicente, died in the 1980 Burning of the Spanish Embassy, which occurred after urban guerrillas took hostages and were attacked by government security forces.^[3] In January 2015, a Guatemalan court convicted the commander of a former police investigations murder unit of attempted murder and crimes against humanity for his role in the embassy attack.^[3]

In 1981, Menchú was exiled and escaped to Mexico where she found refuge in the home of a Catholic bishop in Chiapas.^{[citation needed]} A year later, in 1982, she narrated a book about her life, titled Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia (My Name is Rigoberta Menchú, and this is how my Awareness was Born), to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, which was translated into five other languages including English and French.^[2] The book made her an international icon at the time of the ongoing conflict in Guatemala.^[2]

In 1984, Menchú's other brother, Victor, was shot to death after he surrendered to the Guatemalan army, was threatened by soldiers, and tried to escape.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, Menchú married Ángel Canil, a Guatemalan. They have a son, Mash Nahual J’a ('Spirit of Water').^[4]

Activism[edit]

After leaving school, Menchú worked as an activist campaigning against human rights violations committed by the Guatemalan armed forces during the country's civil war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996.^{[citation needed]} After being exiled in 1981, Menchú continued to organize resistance to oppression in Guatemala and organize the struggle for indigenous rights by co-founding the United Republic of Guatemalan Opposition.^[5] Tens of thousands of people, mostly Mayan Indians, fled to Mexico from 1982 to 1984 at the height of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.^[5]

After the Guatemalan Civil War ended, Menchú campaigned to have Guatemalan political and military establishment members tried in Spanish courts.^[6] In 1999, she filed a complaint before a court in Spain because prosecutions of civil-war era crimes in Guatemala was practically impossible.^[6] These attempts stalled as the Spanish courts determined that the plaintiffs had not yet exhausted all possibilities of seeking justice through the legal system of Guatemala.^[6] On December 23, 2006, Spain called for the extradition of Guatemala of seven former members of Guatemala's government, including Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Mejía, on charges of genocide and torture.^[7] Spain's highest court ruled that cases of genocide committed abroad could be judged in Spain, even if no Spanish citizens were involved.^[7] In addition to the deaths of Spanish citizens, the most serious charges include genocide against the Maya people of Guatemala.^[7]

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Menchu commemorating the Treaty on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2009

Menchú has become involved in the indigenous pharmaceutical industry as president of 'Salud para Todos' ('Health for All') and the company 'Farmacias Similares,' with the goal of offering low-cost generic medicines.^[8] She has served as president of 'Salud para Todos' since 2003 and has opened pharmacies all over Guatemala.^[9] As president of this organization, Menchú has received pushback from large pharmaceutical companies due to her desire to shorten the patent life of certain AIDS and cancer drugs and increase their availability and affordability.^[9]

Mechú served as the Presidential Goodwill Ambassador for the 1996 Peace Accords in Guatemala.^[8] That same year she received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Boston.^[10] Since then, Menchú has used her position as an UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador to attend various lectures and conferences, including giving a lecture on 'Human Rights and Social Justice' at UCONN in 2012.^[11] In 2015, Menchú met with the general director of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, in order to solidify relations between Guatemala and the organization.^[12]

In 2006, Menchú was one of the founders of the Nobel Women's Initiative along with sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire.^[13] These six women, representing North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, decided to bring together their experiences in a united effort for peace, justice and equality.^[13] It is the goal of the Nobel Women's Initiative to help strengthen women's rights around the world.^[13]

Menchú is a member of PeaceJam, an organization whose mission is use Nobel Peace Laureates as mentors and models to young, future leaders and provide a way for these Laureates to share their knowledge, passions, and experience.^[14]^[15] She travels around the world speaking to youth through PeaceJam conferences.^[14] She has also been a member of the Fondation Chirac's honor committee since the foundation was launched in 2008 by former French president Jacques Chirac in order to promote world peace.^[16]

Menchú has continued her activism in recent years, according to the Prensa Latina, by continuing to raise awareness for issues including political and economic inequality and climate change.^[17]

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Politics[edit]

On February 12, 2007, Menchú announced that she would form an indigenous political party called Encuentro por Guatemala and that she would stand in the 2007 presidential election.^[18] Had she been elected, she would have become Latin America's fourth indigenous president after Mexico's Benito Juárez, Peru's Alejandro Toledo and Bolivia's Evo Morales.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2007 election, Menchú was defeated in the first round, receiving three percent of the vote.^[19] After the elections, Rigoberta Menchú gave a message of peace to all Guatemalans on television.^[20]

In 2009, Menchú became involved in the newly founded party Winaq.^[18] Menchú was a candidate for the 2011 presidential election, but lost in the first round, winning three percent of the vote again.^[21] According to Adam Zuckerman, writer for the Washington Report on Hemisphere, Menchú's candidacy failed because she elected to run as part of a new political party instead of as part of an established one and because of her lack of political experience.^[18]

Awards and honors[edit]

The Nobel Peace Prize Medal awarded to Menchú is safeguarded in the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy and social justice work for the indigenous peoples of Latin America^[22]
1992 UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador position for her advocacy for the indigenous peoples of Guatemala^[11]
1996 Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for her authorship and advocacy for the indigenous peoples of Guatemala^[23]
1998 Prince of Asturias Prize for improving the condition of women and the communities they serve. (Jointly with 6 other women.)^[24]
1999 asteroid 9481 Menchú was named in her honor (M.P.C. 34354)^[25]
2010 Order of the Aztec Eagle for services provided for Mexico^[26]
2018 Spendlove Prize for her advocacy for minority groups^[27]

Publications[edit]

I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983)^[28]
- This book, also titled My Name is Rigoberta Menchú and that's how my Conscience was Born, was dictated by Menchú and transcribed by Elizabeth Burgos^[29]
Crossing Borders (1998)^[30]
Daughter of the Maya (1999)^[31]
The Girl from Chimel (2005)^[32]
The Honey Jar (2006)^[33]
K'aslemalil-Vivir. El caminar de Rigoberta Menchú Tum en el Tiempo (2012)^[34]^[35]

Controversies about her testimony[edit]

John Beverly, author of The Margin at the Center: on Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative), describes the genre Testimonio as 'documentary fiction' due to the other genres it encompasses, including autobiography, confession, interview, and diary.^[36] Much of the conflict surrounding Menchú's testimony, I, Rigoberta Menchú, stems from different interpretations of the Testimonio genre.^[37]

More than a decade after the publication of I, Rigoberta Menchú, anthropologist David Stoll investigated Menchú's story by researching government documents, reports, and land claims (many of which were filed by Menchú's own family), in addition to interviewing Menchú's former neighbors, friends, enemies, and Guatemalan locals for his 1999 book Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans.^{[citation needed]}.

Stoll claimed Menchú changed some elements about her life, family, and village to meet the publicity needs of the guerrilla movement.^{[citation needed]} The controversy caused by Stoll's book received widespread coverage in the US press of the time.^[38]

Historian Greg Grandin claims Stoll's research on the Guatemalan revolution is mostly wrong, but was able to corroborate Stoll's charges against two of the anecdotes in Menchú's testimony.^[39] Grandin documented that Menchú received some education, contradicting a claim that her father refused to send her to school because he did not want her to lose her cultural identity.^[40] Additionally, Grandin and Stoll both found evidence that Menchú falsely placed herself at the scene of her 16-year-old brother's murder.^[40] According to Grandin, in a later interview, Stoll agreed that the majority of Menchú's testimony is essentially accurate.^[39]

In her own critique of Stoll's work, titled The Silencing of Maya Women from Mama Maquin to Rigoberta Menchu, anthropologist Victoria Sanford highlights inaccuracies in Stoll's book, and claims that he used highly questionable sources as research informants.^[41] Additionally, anthropologist David Johnson uses his article, 'The limits of community: How 'we' read Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú', to defend Menchú's testimony by suggesting that the irregularities in her autobiography are irrelevant because they help to accomplish what he identifies as the original purpose of her testimony: to recount the story of a typical poor Guatemalan.^[42] John Feffer, a renowned author and co-director at the Institute for Policy Studies, suggests that Menchú's testimony has remained relevant despite the issues highlighted by Stoll due to the facts it presents and the way in which it describes the life of a Guatemalan during the Guatemalan Civil War.^[37]

The Nobel Committee dismissed calls to revoke Menchú's Nobel Prize, rejecting the claims of falsification by Stoll.^{[citation needed]}Geir Lundestad, the secretary of the Committee, said Menchú's prize was awarded because of her advocacy and social justice work, not because of her testimony.^[2]^[22] According to the Nobel Committee, because Menchú's testimony allowed her to bring light to the horrors the Guatemalan army committed, Stoll agrees with the Nobel Committee's decision not to revoke Menchú's prize.^[2]

References[edit]

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