Lake Atitlán, Guatemala Ethnographic Field School – 2010

Readings

TEXTS

Pre-departure books:

1. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain: Studies of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 2002. ISBN: 0618221395. (Moving, very well written book, almost like a novel, that discusses the history and consequences of Guatemala’s 30 year civil war which has left an indelible imprint on the current generation of Guatemalans. (Required reading)

2. Robert Carlson, War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Mayan Town. Austin, TX: U. of Texas Press, 1997. (This is about Santiago Atitlán, once of the main communities in the area.)

Readings for Guatemala: (These you need to bring with you.)

3. Kathleen M. DeWalt and Billie R. DeWalt, Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002. (inexpensive, basic details of how to do fieldwork.)

4. Andrew Gardner and David M. Hoffman. Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. 2006. (Short stories of fieldwork by PhD candidates.)

5. Erve Chambers, Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism, 2ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2009. (Inexpensive, basic, short, but very good text on tourism.) (Required)

6. Walter Little, Mayas in the Marketplace, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. (tourism, globalization and identity, market vendors in Antigua.)

Required Readings – Chapters and Journal Articles:

Downloads Concerning Guatemala and Lake Atitlán Communities

7. Robert Hinshaw, "Panajachel: A Tourist Town Amidst the Violence." Harvest of Violence

8. Benjamin Paul, "The Operation of a Death Squad in San Pedro La Laguna."

9. Richard N. Adams, “The Evolution of Racism in Guatemala: Hegemony, Science and Antihegemony,” In Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 1, edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005: 132-180.

10. Stephen O. Murray, “William Fielding Ogburn’s Fostering of Sol Tax’s Explorations of Small-Scale Mercantile Capitalism in Highland Guatemala, In Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 1, edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,2007: 38-50.

11. John Hawkins, Robert Redfield’s Culture Concept and Mesoamerican Anthropology

12. Becker and Richards, Maya Language and Literacy in Guatemala

13. John D. Early, A Demographic Survey (1983) of Contemporary Guatemalan Maya

14. Mendez, Illness and Medical Theory among Guatemalan Indians

15. Victoria Sanford, Forensic Anthropology in Guatemala

16. Brent Metz, C’horti Maya, An Introduction to My Fieldwork

17. Gross, Post-Marital Residence in Santiago Atitlan

Downloads: Methods Training

18. Harry Wolcott, Transforming Qualitative Research, Chapter 2

19. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 5, ch. 4 pp. 45-66. “Analysis from the Top Down”

20. Ethnography Handbook, Emerson et. al., “Writing Field Notes”

21. Russell Handbook, ch 10, pp. 333-364 Levy and Hollan “Person-Centered Interviewing and Observation”

22. Russell Handbook, Johnson & Sackett, pp. 301-331 “Direct, Systematic Observation”

23. Russell Handbook, Schweizer “Epistemology” ch. 2, pp. 39-88.

24. Russell Handbook, ch 11, pp. 365-410, Weller “Structured Interviewing and Questionnaire Construction”

25. Russell Handbook, Johnson, ch.4 “Design & Strategies” pp. 131-173

26. Russell Bernard, Research Methods, ch. 14, “Field Notes”

27. Russell Bernard, Research Methods ch. 15, pp. 310-359, “Direct” and “Unobstrustive” Observation”

28. Bernard, Research Methods, ch. 17, pp. 393-402, “coding & codebooks”

29. Carole E. Hill, Decision-Tree Modeling

30. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 1, ch. 4, pp. 61-96

31. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 1, ch. 5 pp. 97-126. “Choosing/Designing Research Project”

32. Ethnographer Toolkit, vol. 2, ch 5, “Open Ended Observation” pp. 91-120

33. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 2, ch 6, Open-Ended Interviewing

34. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 2, ch 7, Semi-Structured Interviewing

35. Ethnographer Toolkit, vol. 2, ch 8, “Survey” pp. 165-200

36. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 3, ch. 2 pp. 51-114. “Focus Groups”

37. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 3, ch. 1 pp. 1-50. “Audiovisual Materials in Ethnography”

38. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, vol. 4, ch. 2 pp. 51-124.

39. Ethnographer’s Toolkit, Vol. 5, ch. 2, “In-Field Analysis”

40. Tredell, “Oral History Techniques”

41. Madison, “Methods” (Models of Interviewing Methods)” pp.22-41

42. Handbook of Ethnography, DeWalt and DeWalt, Ch.25 on Interviewing

43. Handbook of Ethnography DeWalt & DeWalt, ch.24, pp. 259-299 “Participant Observation”

44. Sobo, The Forest of Methods

45. Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description” in Interpretation of Culture

46. Renato Rosaldo, chap. 8 “Subjectivity in Social Analysis” in Culture and Truth

47. Alain Coulon, pp. 15-44, in Ethnomethodology.

48. Goffman, ch. “primary frameworks” in Frame Analysis, pp. 21-40/ pp. from Presentation Self

49. Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology, pp. 35-60, 76-80, 94-103

50. Ball and Smith, “Ethnographic Uses of Film and Photography”

51. Sarah Pink, Doing Visual Ethnography, ch. 3 on photography, pp. 49-93

52. Sarah Pink, Doing Visual Ethnography, ch. 4 on video, pp. 49-93

53. Quetzil Castañeda, ms, “What is an Ethnographic Photograph?”

54. George Marcus “Multi-Sited Ethnography”

55. Maxwell, Qualitative Res, Design, pp. 46-55, “Concept Map” pp. 65-78. “Res. Questions”

56. M. Fliesher, Free-Listing at a Women’s Prison

57. Gun Roos, Pile-Sorting, “Kids Like Candy”

58. Fleuhr-Lobban, “Ethics & Anthro, 1890-2000”ch 1, pp. 1-28, in Ethics Professional Anthropology