Edward F. Fischer

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Pluralizing Ethnography

Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities

School for Advanced Research Press

This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist as discussant to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Cash on the Table

Markets, Values, and Moral Economies

School for Advanced Research Press

A great deal is at stake in understanding the moral dimensions of economic behavior and markets. Public debates over executive compensation, the fair trade movement, and recent academic inquiries into the limitations of rational-choice paradigms all point to the relevance of moral values in our economic decision-making processes. Moral values inform economic behavior.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Harvest of Violence Revisited

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala

University of Texas Press

Essays on the pan-Maya movement by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Cultural Logics and Global Economies

Maya Identity in Thought and Practice

University of Texas Press

Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how

  • Copyright year: 2002
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