Abigail E. Adams
Making tortillas (Q'eqchi': cua)
Addresses: 110E DiLoreto Hall, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050
(860) 832-2616 FAX (860) 832-3140
My research and teaching interests include relations between North and Central Americans, Mayan religion and identity, gender, ethnicity and Guatemala's civil reconstruction. For more information on research on gender construction (specifically, women and "women" in U.S. military academies!), try these. I did my doctoral research in San Juan Chamelco, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. There I studied how and why a U.S. evangelical mission and a Q'eqchi' Mayan congregation built the largest evangelical church in Guatemala at the height of that country's civil war (click here for photos from San Juan Chamelco, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala).
During my fieldwork, Guatemala's government and armed insurgency finally entered peace negotiations to end that country's civil war. They signed a peace treaty on December 29, 1996. For more information on the Mayan community, Guatemala and the peace process, I suggest starting with the following:
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maya/maya.html
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Guatemala/
http://mars.cropsoil.uga.edu/trop-ag/guatem.htm
Before returning to Guatemala as an academic, I had worked in Central America as an editor and free-lance writer covering health care, the region's civil wars, women's economic development issues and the international debt crisis. Today, I continue research on the impact of foreign aid, both official and private, from the United States to Central America, and on the construction of gender
At CCSU, I teach the following courses in the Anthropology department:
140 Introduction to Anthropology
170 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
350 Women and Men in Different Cultures
441 Folklore and Myth
The Department of Anthropology is also planning to open a summer field school in Guatemala. For more information on this program and others that I would recommend, please click here.
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