Brent Metz
Biographic Data
| ID | 651306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Metz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Metz |
| SIGNATURE | METZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4091-2074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The predicaments of development work in Guatemala’s Ch’orti’ Maya area
In this article, we examine how local development workers confront the contradictions of daily development practice in the Ch’orti’ region of Guatemala. Following a history of state neglect, unequal ethnic relations, and uncoordinated international cooperation, local development specialists are immersed in a bureaucratic culture where distant donors establish project expectations and local routines. While local development experts are formally en…
Practical Considerations for Serving as an Expert Witness for Central American Asylum Cases
The decision for academics, especially ethnographers whose contributions involve rapport and friendship, to serve as expert witnesses, particularly for the growing numbers of applicants from northern Central America, should involve ethical and professional considerations. While expert witnesses do not determine the veracity of individual cases, they should at least reflect when people from populations they know are disadvantaged and under various…
Adjusting Photovoice for Marginalized Indigenous Women
Photovoice is a Community-based Participatory Research method in which cameras are distributed to marginalized members of a community to document their own perspectives as well as balance power between researcher, researched, and dominant members of their society. Photovoice has been used in many contexts and been subject to constant renovation and refinement, to which the authors intend to contribute here. At the start of an Engineers Without Bo…
Commentaries on Migration and Borders from the United States
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William L. Alexander, Anthony Guevara, Mary K. Brannock, Xóchitl Bada, Andreas Feldmann, Beth F. Baker, Deborah A. Boehm, Guillermo Cantor, Heide Castañeda, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Walter A. Ewing, Christina Getrich, David Griffith, Lourdes Gu…
The Challenge of Framing Migration for the Public
Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala
Becoming Mapuche
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The publisher's official version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_23.x
Questions of Indigeneity and the (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya of Honduras
Entre el espacio de unos años, los Ch'orti'de Honduras salieron de una identidad débil y vergonzosa a tener un movimiento étnico con miles de miembros y tan fuerte que apresuró el gobierno nacional. La volatilidad de tal identidades en la época de derechos y reparaciones indígenas exige un análisis que reconozca la construcción social de identidades de grupos, pero atención única a procesos de construcción de corto plazo es impracticable y engaña…
The Violence After "La Violencia" in the Ch'orti' Region of Eastern Guatemala
El oriente de Guatemala ha tenido una reputación por ser ladino, fuera de la ley y violento, y lo es en relación al occidente del país. En este artículo intentamos a subvertir la presunción que la gente del oriente sea inherentemente violento por examinar las condiciones históricas y estructurales que fomentan la posibilidad de actos violentos. Entre tales condiciones son tradiciones de racismo y subversión de la autoridad del estado, el genocidi…
The Ch′orti′ Maya Area
Human Trafficking
Postcard From Guatemala
Politics, Population, and Family Planning in Guatemala
The Guatemalan population has increased from 3 million to over 11 million since 1950. A close look at the Guatemalan population boom, especially among Mayas, reveals several interrelated factors at play, including 1) a lifestyle based on manual labor and cooperation of kin, 2) inadequate indigenous contraceptive techniques, 3) poverty and marginality from public services, 4) ethnic distrust, 5) religion, 6) gender inequality, and, ultimately, 7) …
Without Nation, without Community
Until recently, Mesoamerican history has largely been characterized by the struggles of local communities for autonomy against encroaching states. In Guatemala, Ch'orti' communities in the east have generally suffered more pressure than Maya communities of the west. By the end of this century, Ch'orti' culture(s) and ethnic identity(ies) have become severely threatened by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and state repression, while no national cul…
Invisible Converts to Protestantism in Highland Guatemala
An Expression of Cultural Change
The process of religious conversions to Protestantism is widespread and rapid in the underdeveloped world, and the numbers in Latin America are especially significant (Stoll 1990). It affects urban and rural peoples of varied cultural and ecological backgrounds. Often, major economic changes are either attributed or related to the significant ideological shift associated with religious conversion. The nature of the changes taking place as individ…
An Expression of Cultural Change
The process of religious conversions to Protestantism is widespread and rapid in the underdeveloped world, and the numbers in Latin America are especially significant (Stoll 1990). It affects urban and rural peoples of varied cultural and ecological backgrounds. Often, major economic changes are either attributed or related to the significant ideological shift associated with religious conversion. The nature of the changes taking place as individ…
Questions of Indigeneity and the (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya of Honduras
Entre el espacio de unos años, los Ch'orti'de Honduras salieron de una identidad débil y vergonzosa a tener un movimiento étnico con miles de miembros y tan fuerte que apresuró el gobierno nacional. La volatilidad de tal identidades en la época de derechos y reparaciones indígenas exige un análisis que reconozca la construcción social de identidades de grupos, pero atención única a procesos de construcción de corto plazo es impracticable y engaña…
The Violence After "La Violencia" in the Ch'orti' Region of Eastern Guatemala
El oriente de Guatemala ha tenido una reputación por ser ladino, fuera de la ley y violento, y lo es en relación al occidente del país. En este artículo intentamos a subvertir la presunción que la gente del oriente sea inherentemente violento por examinar las condiciones históricas y estructurales que fomentan la posibilidad de actos violentos. Entre tales condiciones son tradiciones de racismo y subversión de la autoridad del estado, el genocidi…
Without Nation, without Community
Until recently, Mesoamerican history has largely been characterized by the struggles of local communities for autonomy against encroaching states. In Guatemala, Ch'orti' communities in the east have generally suffered more pressure than Maya communities of the west. By the end of this century, Ch'orti' culture(s) and ethnic identity(ies) have become severely threatened by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and state repression, while no national cul…
Postcard From Guatemala
An Expression of Cultural Change
The process of religious conversions to Protestantism is widespread and rapid in the underdeveloped world, and the numbers in Latin America are especially significant (Stoll 1990). It affects urban and rural peoples of varied cultural and ecological backgrounds. Often, major economic changes are either attributed or related to the significant ideological shift associated with religious conversion. The nature of the changes taking place as individ…
Invisible Converts to Protestantism in Highland Guatemala
Without Nation, without Community
Until recently, Mesoamerican history has largely been characterized by the struggles of local communities for autonomy against encroaching states. In Guatemala, Ch'orti' communities in the east have generally suffered more pressure than Maya communities of the west. By the end of this century, Ch'orti' culture(s) and ethnic identity(ies) have become severely threatened by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and state repression, while no national cul…
Politics, Population, and Family Planning in Guatemala
The Guatemalan population has increased from 3 million to over 11 million since 1950. A close look at the Guatemalan population boom, especially among Mayas, reveals several interrelated factors at play, including 1) a lifestyle based on manual labor and cooperation of kin, 2) inadequate indigenous contraceptive techniques, 3) poverty and marginality from public services, 4) ethnic distrust, 5) religion, 6) gender inequality, and, ultimately, 7) …
Human Trafficking
Postcard From Guatemala
The Ch′orti′ Maya Area
Questions of Indigeneity and the (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya of Honduras
Entre el espacio de unos años, los Ch'orti'de Honduras salieron de una identidad débil y vergonzosa a tener un movimiento étnico con miles de miembros y tan fuerte que apresuró el gobierno nacional. La volatilidad de tal identidades en la época de derechos y reparaciones indígenas exige un análisis que reconozca la construcción social de identidades de grupos, pero atención única a procesos de construcción de corto plazo es impracticable y engaña…
The Violence After "La Violencia" in the Ch'orti' Region of Eastern Guatemala
El oriente de Guatemala ha tenido una reputación por ser ladino, fuera de la ley y violento, y lo es en relación al occidente del país. En este artículo intentamos a subvertir la presunción que la gente del oriente sea inherentemente violento por examinar las condiciones históricas y estructurales que fomentan la posibilidad de actos violentos. Entre tales condiciones son tradiciones de racismo y subversión de la autoridad del estado, el genocidi…
Becoming Mapuche
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The publisher's official version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_23.x
Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala
Commentaries on Migration and Borders from the United States
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William L. Alexander, Anthony Guevara, Mary K. Brannock, Xóchitl Bada, Andreas Feldmann, Beth F. Baker, Deborah A. Boehm, Guillermo Cantor, Heide Castañeda, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Walter A. Ewing, Christina Getrich, David Griffith, Lourdes Gu…
The Challenge of Framing Migration for the Public
Adjusting Photovoice for Marginalized Indigenous Women
Photovoice is a Community-based Participatory Research method in which cameras are distributed to marginalized members of a community to document their own perspectives as well as balance power between researcher, researched, and dominant members of their society. Photovoice has been used in many contexts and been subject to constant renovation and refinement, to which the authors intend to contribute here. At the start of an Engineers Without Bo…
Practical Considerations for Serving as an Expert Witness for Central American Asylum Cases
The decision for academics, especially ethnographers whose contributions involve rapport and friendship, to serve as expert witnesses, particularly for the growing numbers of applicants from northern Central America, should involve ethical and professional considerations. While expert witnesses do not determine the veracity of individual cases, they should at least reflect when people from populations they know are disadvantaged and under various…
The predicaments of development work in Guatemala’s Ch’orti’ Maya area
In this article, we examine how local development workers confront the contradictions of daily development practice in the Ch’orti’ region of Guatemala. Following a history of state neglect, unequal ethnic relations, and uncoordinated international cooperation, local development specialists are immersed in a bureaucratic culture where distant donors establish project expectations and local routines. While local development experts are formally en…
Geography (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Maya (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Citation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)