Robert S Carlsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 222255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Carlsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlsen |
| SIGNATURE | CARLSEN R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state stea…
Our Elders Teach Us
The Maya have always constituted the majority of Guatemala’s population. Nonetheless, until recently they have been notably absent from published national histories. On those occasions when they have appeared, they are typically cast as lazy and childlike “indios” incapable of meaningful actions. While this published material may tell readers much about the ethnic myths of the country’s nonindigenous elite, it is of minimal value for understandin…
Quiché Rebelde
Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala. Ricardo Falla. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. vii. 279 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Social Organization and Disorganization in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
Robert S. Carlsen, Social Organization and Disorganization in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, Ethnology, Vol. 35, No. 2, Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units: Part I (Spring, 1996), pp. 141-160
Maya Textiles of Guatemala . Margot Blum Schevill, with a historical essay by Christopher H. Lutz
The Flowering of the Dead
Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala
Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala
The Flowering of the Dead
Maya Textiles of Guatemala . Margot Blum Schevill, with a historical essay by Christopher H. Lutz
Social Organization and Disorganization in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
Robert S. Carlsen, Social Organization and Disorganization in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, Ethnology, Vol. 35, No. 2, Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units: Part I (Spring, 1996), pp. 141-160
Quiché Rebelde
Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala. Ricardo Falla. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. vii. 279 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Our Elders Teach Us
The Maya have always constituted the majority of Guatemala’s population. Nonetheless, until recently they have been notably absent from published national histories. On those occasions when they have appeared, they are typically cast as lazy and childlike “indios” incapable of meaningful actions. While this published material may tell readers much about the ethnic myths of the country’s nonindigenous elite, it is of minimal value for understandin…
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state stea…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Maya (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)