Carol Hendrickson: 2 books
Weaving Identities
Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Traje, the brightly colored traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the principal visual expression of indigenous identity in Guatemala today. Whether worn in beauty pageants, made for religious celebrations, or sold in tourist markets, traje is more than "mere cloth"—it plays an active...
Tecpan Guatemala
A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands. It seeks to build on the traditional strengths of ethnography while rejecting overly romantic and isolationist tendencies in the genre.