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From Challenge To Absorption: The Changing Face Of Latino Studies, Pedro Caban
From Challenge To Absorption: The Changing Face Of Latino Studies, Pedro Caban
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship
Over the last three decades Latino studies scholarship has gained increased academic acceptance. However, many administrators continue to doubt the wisdom of sustaining autonomous Latino studies departments, and are devising alternative approaches for incorporating Latino-based knowledge into the university’s mission. This article discusses the academy’s response to the emergence of Latino studies and explores a range of consequences for the field of two institutional arrangements that universities appear to privilege: the horizontal fusion with Latin American Studies, and a vertical absorption into centers for the study of race and ethnic or absorption into American studies.
Common Origins/"Different" Identities In Two Kaqchikel Maya Towns, Walter E. Little
Common Origins/"Different" Identities In Two Kaqchikel Maya Towns, Walter E. Little
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Kaqchikel Maya residents of San Antonio Aguas Calientes and Santa Catarina Barahona (neighboring towns in Guatemala) tell the same origin story. This story is used to root historically their concepts of collective identity and community. However, residents in each town hold that those in the other town have no real claim to the story. Both towns can equally claim this origin story, but the debate between residents of these towns offers an opportunity to discuss how the meaning of place is related to the historical and ethnographic contexts of which that place's residents are part. By weighing the story and …
Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little
Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Walter Little is assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and codirector of Oxlajuj Aj, Tulane University’s Kaqchikel Language and Culture class in Guatemala. He has conducted fieldwork among Maya handicrafts producers and vendors since 1992 on issues related to tourism, gender roles, and identity performance, and this research is the subject of his book, Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity (Austin: University of Texas, 2004).