Edward F. Fischer
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Pluralizing Ethnography
Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities
Edited by John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer
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
Cash on the Table
Markets, Values, and Moral Economies
Edited by Edward F. Fischer
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
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Edited by Kevin Young and Timothy J. Smith
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2009
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala
Edited by Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown
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
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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