Walter E. Little

Office: Arts & Sciences Building, Room 245
Ph: (518) 442-4718
E-mail: wlittle@albany.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Books and Special Issues: Authored, Co-Authored, and Edited

Forthcoming April 2009 Harvest of Violence Revisited: Mayas in Post War Guatemala, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. (Edited with Timothy J. Smith).

2006 La ütz awäch? Introduction to the Kaqchikel Maya Language. Austin: University of Texas Press. (With R. McKenna Brown and Judith M. Maxwell).

2006 Kaqchikel Tijonïk Oxlajuj Aj: Curso de Idioma y Cultura Maya Kaqchikel. (With Judith M. Maxwell) Antigua, Guatemala: Editorial Junapu’.

2005 Guest editor, Special Issue: “Maya Livelihoods in Guatemala’s Global Economy,” Latin American Perspectives 32(5).

2004 Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Winner of the New England Council of Latin America Studies

Best Book Prize 2005

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

2008 A Visual Political Economy of Maya Representations in Guatemala, 1931-1944. Ethnohistory55(4): 633-663.

2008 Living within the Mundo Maya Development Project: Strategies of Maya Handicraft Vendors. Latin American Perspectives 35(3): 87-102.

2008 Weaving Rituals and the Production of Commemorative Cloth in Highland Guatemala. Research in Economic Anthropology 27: 121-148.

2008 Crime, Maya Handicraft Vendors, and the Social Re/Construction of Market Spaces in a Tourism Town. Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. SEA, Volume 25: 267-290. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

2007 Chapter 9, “Transnationalism and the Political Economy of Mesoamerica.” In R. Carmack, J. Gasco, and G. Gossen (eds.) The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization. Prentice Hall. 2nd Edition. Pp. 347-378. (With Liliana Goldín).

2005 Introduction: What Does Globalization Mean to Indigenous/Mayan Workers Working and Organizing in Guatemala. In W. Little, editor, Special Issue: “Maya Livelihoods in Guatemala’s Global Economy,” Latin American Perspectives 32(5).

2005 Getting Organized: Political and Economic Dilemmas for Maya Handicrafts Venders. In W. Little, editor, Special Issue: “Maya Livelihoods in Guatemala’s Global Economy,” Latin American Perspectives 32(5).

2004 In Between Social Movements: Dilemmas of Indigenous Handicrafts Vendors in Guatemala. American Ethnologist. 31(1): 43-59.

2003 Performing Tourism: Maya Women’s Strategies. Special Issue: Development Cultures: New Environments, New Realities, New Strategies. Signs 29(2): 527-532

2003 Commentary on Chocolate Review. American Anthropologist 105(4):881-882.

2003 Common Origins/“Different” Identities in Two Kaqchikel Maya Towns. Journal of Anthropological Research 59(2): 205-224.

2002 Selling Strategies and Social Relations among Mobile Maya Handicrafts Vendors. Research in Economic Anthropology 21: 61-95.

2000 Home as a Place of Exhibition and Performance: Mayan Household Transformations in Guatemala . Ethnology 39(2): 163-181.

Encyclopedia Articles

2008 Artisanal Production: Overview. In Bonnie G. Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.

2008 Artisanal Production: Types of Production. In Bonnie G. Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.

2008 International and Regional Trade Systems. In Bonnie G. Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.

2005 Alienation. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 50-51.

2005 Anthropology, humanistic. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 169-172.

2005 Geertz, Clifford. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 1027-1028.

2005 Labor, division of. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 1397-1399.

2005 Peasants. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 1833-1836.

2005 Tax, Sol. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 2164-2165.

2005 Turner, Edith. In H. James Birx, editor, Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications. Pp. 2233-2234.

Periodicals:

2001 The U.S. Role in Guatemalan Peace. Chicago Tribune 155(301): section 1, 24, October 31.

2001 International Tourism and Nation. Anthropology News 42(4): 53-54.