Victoria Sanford

Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of “engagement.” The field’s core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process. Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so.

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala.

IN 1940 GERMAN sCIENTISTS WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY MIXED GENETIC MODIFCATION AND MAGIC IN EMBRYOS. TODAY THEY FOUND OUT Born to a destiny she never wanted-a destiny that could change Earth as we know it. After six years in the California Child Protective Services care, Memory's worst nightmare comes to pass when she is jerked away from her California foster home and sent across the country to live with mysterious relatives in the mountains of North Georgia. But Winters Cove was hiding secrets about her family no one wants to get out. Once she arrives, Memory learns information that could shift her belief in everything she'd always thought the truth. The only people she can trust to help her unravel the decades' old mystery and piece together the dangerous puzzle, are her distant cousins Crystal and Cody. As she seeks to discover the source of her burgeoning powers and discover what lies beneath the betrayals, she discovers she is a pawn in a dangerous game. A game in which the rules keep changing. Luckily for her, not following the rules has never been a problem. She was never supposed to be found. Now she's a target. And as her sixteenth birthday nears, she realizes her time is running out. An Urban Fantasy with a twist, Making Memory combines just enough magic to modern Science Fiction to bring forth a believable story of what could happen when genetic manipulation goes right.

When Gwen Marlow's father invited her to celebrate her eighteenth birthday at his Ski Resort in North Carolina, he forgot to mention a few small details; why he'd vanished from her life, that he drank like a fish, he loved to gamble, and he wasn't human. Five years earlier he'd been dealt the perfect hand, four queens and an ace. Short of cash, he'd used his daughter as collateral in a poker game. Except Otto had four kings and an ace. Now holding the contract, Otto expected her to become his mate. Gwen has no intention of honoring that contract. After his father's murder Tyrel Henderson had walked away from his Pride and everything it stood for. Why had he let Gideon talk him into tracking the green eyed blonde in jeans and hiking boots through the Smokey Mountains? The sooner he could locate her and get her delivered to Otto, the happier he would be. She would experience her first heat soon. Can he resist his natural desires to claim her as his own mate? Fate was still laughing....

When Gwen Marlow's father invited her to celebrate her eighteenth birthday at his Ski Resort in North Carolina, he forgot to mention a few small details; why he'd vanished from her life, that he drank like a fish, he loved to gamble, and he wasn't human. Five years earlier he'd been dealt the perfect hand, four queens and an ace. Short of cash, he'd used his daughter as collateral in a poker game. Except Otto had four kings and an ace. Now holding the contract, Otto expected her to become his mate. Gwen has no intention of honoring that contract. After his father's murder Tyrel Henderson had walked away from his Pride and everything it stood for. Why had he let Gideon talk him into tracking the green eyed blonde in jeans and hiking boots through the Smokey Mountains? The sooner he could locate her and get her delivered to Otto, the happier he would be. She would experience her first heat soon. Can he resist his natural desires to claim her as his own mate? Fate was still laughing....