Strategic Identities and Subversive Narratives: On Being Maya in a Globalized World

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N/A Author Biography Edward F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Vanderbilt University. Earned his BA from the University of Alabama Birmingham in 1989, his MA from Tulane University in 1995, and his PhD from Tulane in 1996. Has published widely on Maya culture, globalization, political economy including the following books: Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala, co edited with R. McKenna Brown, (University of Texas Press, 1996), Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice (University of Texas Press, 2001), and Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Local and Global Contexts (Westview Press, 2002) with Carol Hendrickson.