Claudia Dary
E-mail: claudiadary@usa.net
Education:
BA, Universidad de San Carlos
MA, University of Pittsburgh
Training in Communal Forestry (International Forestry Resources and Institutions
[IFRI] Training Program): Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis:
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, August 25-October 25, 2001
Outstanding International Student in the Department of Anthropology, University
Center for International Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, University
of Pittsburgh
Elected as Academic Member of the Guatemalan Academy of Geography and History,
August 23, 2000
Research interests:
Ethnicity, identity, interethnic relations; Mesoamerican ethnohistory. I am
also interested in gender and environment issues, especially local knowledge
about nature and biodiversity use and conservation.
Current research:
Ethnicity, resource competition on common lands in Eastern Guatemala; Maya women and higher education in Guatemala.
Publications:
Dary, Claudia
2002 The "poqomames" of Palín, tradition and changes in the
use and perception of natural resources (Los poqomames de Palín, tradición
y cambio en el uso y percepción de los recursos naturales), in Gender and
bio-diversity in the indigenous communities of Central America. Claudia Dary, coordinator Guatemala, FLACSO.
Dary, Claudia
2000 Outlook on the Guatemalan society in five USA books on travel (1935-1950),
in Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala, LXXV.
Dary, Claudia, researcher
1998 "The construction of the nation and citizen's representation in Mexico,
Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia" (La construcción de la
nación y la representación ciudadana en México, Guatemala, Perú, Ecuador
y Bolivia).
Dary, Claudia; Silvel Elías and Violeta Reyna
1998 Strategies for Survival of farmers in fragile eco-systems: The "ch'orti"
on the dry mountain slopes of the eastern region of Guatemala" (Estrategias
de sobrevivencia campesina en ecosistemas frágiles. Los ch'orti' en las
laderas secas del oriente de Guatemala). Guatemala: FLACSO.
Co-author of the UNESCO BOOK "Naif Paintings: Contemporary
Mayan painting in Guatemala" (Pintura Naïf. Pintura Maya Guatemalteca
Contemporánea Guatemala), 1998.
Dary, Claudia
1997 International humanitarian law and the Mayan judicial system. An historic
and cultural perspective (El derecho internacional humanitario y el
orden jurídico maya. Una perspectiva histórico cultural).
Guatemala: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)/Comité
Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR)-Proyecto Maya.
Gálvez-Borrel, Victor; Dary, Claudia; Esquit, Edgar;
and Isabel Rodas
1997 What kind of a society do we want? A view from the Mayans’ social
movements and organizations (¿Qué sociedad queremos?.
Una mirada desde el movimiento y las organizaciones mayas). Guatemala:
FLACSO.
Co-author of the "The boys and girls of the corn society"
(Niños y Niñas del Maíz): San José, Costa
Rica: UNESCO office for
Central America and Panama, 1995.