INFORMATION MEETINGS FOR THE 2012 PROGRAM

• Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 5pm in Leighton 305
• Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 5pm in Leighton 305

Through coursework and independent research, this program provides students with the opportunity to examine, from an anthropological perspective, issues of cultural continuity, resource management, and social change in Guatemala and Chiapas. This program examines the region’s people attempt to come to terms with social inequality, human rights abuses, and sustainable development in an effort to build a multi-ethnic society.

FACULTY DIRECTOR

Jerome Levi, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Professor Levi led Carleton’s Guatemala and Chiapas program in winter 2006, 2008, and 2010, and was the Director of Latin American Studies, 2003-2006.  He has taught at Carleton since 1993 and conducted ethnographic research on Mesoamerica for nearly three decades, initially focusing on the Tzotzil Maya in the Chiapas highlands and later on the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) of southwest Chihuahua.  His teaching and research interests are in the areas of indigenous rights, the anthropology of religion, ethnicity, economic and environmental anthropology.  He recently served as the Editor for Mesoamerican Ethnology for the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies, and contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.

Articles by a Past Program Participant

http://apps.carleton.edu/news/features/?story_id=639899

https://apps.carleton.edu/news/features/?story_id=639081