Allan Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán - by Eiss, Paul K
Hurston, Zora Neale
Working Alongside each other for 30 Years: Jeronimo Camposeco, Allan Burns and Maya Communities in Florida
Although the Maya Diaspora is often seen as the result of the Civil War in Guatemala during the 1980s, small numbers of Maya were becoming experienced travelers to El Norte from the 1970s. I was a teacher at the Acatec Parochial School of San Miguel starting in 1960, and the people in that area had great economic problems from unproductive lands. Much of the land was stony and the fields were located on the slopes of the mountains, therefore peop…
"Shelton Davis and "Applied Anthropology
This essay celebrates Shelton Davis’ rich and diverse career as an advocate of indigenous peoples’ rights and a major critic of mainline development models being implemented in the Third World. As an applied anthropologist, Davis rejected any division between knowledge and action in relation to indigenous and other populations directly affected by large-scale development. Through his writing and actions, he showed it was possible to maintain both…
Sustaining Fellows of the Society for Applied Anthropology
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-t…
Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of “Genius”
Book Review| March 01 2002 Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of “Genius” By Barbara Will. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 180 pp. £40.00. Allan Burns Allan Burns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 165–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allan Burns; Gertrude Stein, Modernism,…
Regional Culture and Urban Agriculturalists of Mexico City
Keywords: rural economy, urban economy, urbanization, Mexico, agriculture, technology, labour IntroductionThe need for innovative and coherent research centered on the relationship between human activity and environment has increased as ecological problems intensify worldwide. Particularly, the processes that occur dynamically in modern societies are testing the vulnerability of social groups to respond to economic, environmental and cultural cha…
Return of Guatemala's Refugees: Reweaving the Torn
Preface Introduction 1. Torn by Terror 2. Reweaving the Pieces: Culture of Fear/Culture of Learning 3. The Contextual Loom: The Peace Accords, Civil Society, and the Powerful 4. Clash of Patterns: From Mexico and Guatemala A Pictorial 5. Resources for Reweaving: The Perils of Development 6. Human Rights: The Color of Life 7. The Gray of Frozen Grief: Resolving the Trauma of Memory 8. Tearing Still? The Army in Peacetime 9. Weaving the Future: Wha…
A Dictionary of the Maya Language as Spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán . Victoria Bricker , Eleuterio Po'ot Yah, Ofelia Dzul de Po'ot
The opening of the shadow‐line
Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida
Maya Refugees and Applied Anthropology 2. Escape and Arrival 3. Life Crisis and Ritual 4. The Maya in Community and Ethnic Context 5. Work and Changes in Social Structure 6. Conflict and the Evolution of a New Maya Identity 7. Visual Anthropology and the Maya 8. Always Maya Bibliography Index
Zapotec Struggles: Histories, Politics, and Representations from Juchitan, Oaxaca
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida
Applied Anthropology: Selected Papers on Refugee Issues. Pamela A. DeVoe
Corn Is Our Blood: Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society . Leo R. Chavez
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Todos Santos: The Survivors . 1989. A film by Olivia Carrescia. Oigame! Oigame! 1991. A video by Tanya L. Coen, John Payne , and Michael L. Higgins
Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art. CHARLES L. BRIGGS
Applied Anthropology: Refugees of a Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala. Beatriz Manz
Linguistic Anthropology: The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Dennis Tedlock
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Living Maya . 1982. Produced and directed by Hubert L. Smith
An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
Interactive features in Yucatec Mayan narratives
This paper examines how Yucatec Mayan people conceive of conversations. Special attention is given to the role of narrator, respondent, and audience in those speech arts which utilize conversational genres. The conversational genres of ordinary talk, storytelling, and myth-telling in Yucatec Mayan are all dialogues. One field-recorded narrative is analyzed in detail in order to illustrate the distribution and scope of narrator and respondent spee…
An Anthropologist at Work: Field Perspectives on Applied Ethnography and an Independent Research Firm
Obituary: Solon T. Kimball, 1908-1982
Regional Culture and Urban Agriculturalists of Mexico City
Keywords: rural economy, urban economy, urbanization, Mexico, agriculture, technology, labour IntroductionThe need for innovative and coherent research centered on the relationship between human activity and environment has increased as ecological problems intensify worldwide. Particularly, the processes that occur dynamically in modern societies are testing the vulnerability of social groups to respond to economic, environmental and cultural cha…
Applied Anthropology: Selected Papers on Refugee Issues. Pamela A. DeVoe
An Anthropologist at Work: Field Perspectives on Applied Ethnography and an Independent Research Firm
On the Ethnographic Process in Anthropology and Education2
Interactive features in Yucatec Mayan narratives
This paper examines how Yucatec Mayan people conceive of conversations. Special attention is given to the role of narrator, respondent, and audience in those speech arts which utilize conversational genres. The conversational genres of ordinary talk, storytelling, and myth-telling in Yucatec Mayan are all dialogues. One field-recorded narrative is analyzed in detail in order to illustrate the distribution and scope of narrator and respondent spee…
The Folkstories of Children. BRIAN Sutton-SMITH
Linguistics: Saying and Meaning in Puerto Rico: Some Problems in the Ethnology of Discourse. Marshall Morris
Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology in Action . George Spindler, ed
Linguistics: Language, Culture, and Education: Essays by Norman A. McQuown . Anwar S. Dil , ed
Obituary: Solon T. Kimball, 1908-1982
The Mississippi Choctaws at Play: The Serious Side of Leisure. Kendall BLANCHARD
Living Maya . 1982. Produced and directed by Hubert L. Smith
Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams: Afro‐American Folklore from the Hampton Institute. Donald J. Waters
An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Applied Anthropology: Refugees of a Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala. Beatriz Manz
Linguistic Anthropology: The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Dennis Tedlock
Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art. CHARLES L. BRIGGS
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Todos Santos: The Survivors . 1989. A film by Olivia Carrescia. Oigame! Oigame! 1991. A video by Tanya L. Coen, John Payne , and Michael L. Higgins
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society . Leo R. Chavez
Applied Anthropology: Selected Papers on Refugee Issues. Pamela A. DeVoe
Corn Is Our Blood: Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida
Zapotec Struggles: Histories, Politics, and Representations from Juchitan, Oaxaca
Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida
Maya Refugees and Applied Anthropology 2. Escape and Arrival 3. Life Crisis and Ritual 4. The Maya in Community and Ethnic Context 5. Work and Changes in Social Structure 6. Conflict and the Evolution of a New Maya Identity 7. Visual Anthropology and the Maya 8. Always Maya Bibliography Index
Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
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