Paul Eiss

Biographic Data

ID9303393
NAMEPaul Eiss
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEEiss
SIGNATUREEISS P
AFFILIATIONSCarnegie Mellon University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Construction of Maya Space: Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times

    Paul Ei, Paul K Eiss et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2025

    This volume aims to explore how “Maya people of the ancient past and more recent present connected and divided the spaces they used” through close attention to causeways, walls, rails, boundary markers, house lots, and features built inside caves (p. 3). The 14 chapters authored by 33 scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, mostly archaeologists, focus almost entirely on Maya sites in Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Belize (rather than Gu…

  • Christopher Krupa: A feast of flowers review essays

    Open AccessG Smith, Steve Striffler et al.ARTICLEFocaal2023References: 2

    A feast of flowers is simultaneously grounded in the reality of place and the practice of face-to-face social relations while at the same time being thoroughly shaped by detailed attention to actual global geopolitical economy—not just vague references to globalization, but a thorough engagement with, in this case, finance capital and the way debt has driven Northern ambitions and generated a specific kind of social world in the Ecuador of the Gl…

  • The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

    Open AccessFernando Coronil, Julie Skurski et al.BOOKFernando Coronil Reader2019

  • Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

    Fernando Coronil, Gary Wilder et al.BOOKFernando Coronil Reader2019

  • Fernando Coronil (1944-2011)

    Paul Ei, Paul K Eiss et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2012

    On August 16, 2011, anthropologist and historian Fernando Coronil died of lung cancer after a four-month struggle that he insisted on referring to not as a battle, but as a dance. At his side throughout that dance was his partner of 46 years, Julie Skurski, as well as their daughters, Mariana and Andrea Coronil. Coronil was a distinguished professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New Yo…

  • In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán

    Irene Silverblatt, Paul Eiss et al.BOOKIn the Name of El Pueblo2010

  • Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 - by Acuña, R. F

    Open AccessPaul K Ei, Paul Ei et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2010

  • Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876

    Paul Ei, Paul K Eiss et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory2003

    Book Review| October 01 2003 Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 By Terry Rugeley. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xxvii + 335 pp., introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) Paul Eiss Paul Eiss Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 749–750. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-749 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fa…

  • The War of the Eggs: Event, Archive, and History in Yucatán's Independent Union Movement, 1990

    Open AccessPaul Ei, Paul K Eiss et al.ARTICLEEthnology2003

    In 1990, a strike of national significance took place at large-scale egg- and poultry-raising facilities in Yucatan, Mexico. This article relates the history of the struggle of Maya-speaking workers to form independent unions and of the event that came to be known as the of the Part of that struggle relates to the formation of an archive by strikers, and the eventual production of a historical narrative of the conflict by labor organizers from el…