Includes index.

Introduction : sowing the seeds of violence /by Shelton H. Davis -- The story of Santa Cruz Quiché / by Robert M. Carmack -- The transformation of La Esperanza, an Ixcn village / by Beatriz Manz -- Evangelicals, guerillas, and the army : the Ixil Triangle under Ríos Montt / by David Stoll -- The operation of a death squad in San Pedro la Laguna / by Benjamin D. Paul and William J. Demarest -- Story from a peaceful town : San Antonio Aguas Calientes / by Sheldon Annis -- When Indians take power : conflict and consensus in San Juan Ostuncalco / by Roland H. Ebel -- Tourist town amid the violence : Panajachel / by Robert E. Hinshaw -- Destruction of the material bases for Indian culture : economic changes in Totonicapn / by Carol A. Smith -- Struggle for survival in the mountains : hunger and other privations inflicted on internal refugees from the central highlands / by Ricardo Falla -- Mayas aiding Mayas : Guatemalan refugess in Chiapas, Mexico / by Duncan M. Earle -- Conclusions : what can we know about the harvest of violence? / by Richard N. Adams.