Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala

John P. Hawkins is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Brigham Young University. During his forty years at BYU, he conducted research in Guatemala, and he codirected the Anthropology Department Field School in Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán from 1995 through 2006 and in 2009. Walter Randolph Adams received a Master of Science in nutritional anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD from Michigan State University, and a Master of Public Health from Concordia University. He codirected BYU's long-term field school in Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán with John P. Hawkins.

“A groundbreaking long-term study of climate disaster, internal migration, sociocultural change, and identity transformation in the K’iche’-speaking Maya Highlands of Guatemala. Culture comes out in the breach, and this research team was able to follow the devastating consequences of Hurricane Mitch (1998 and its impact over twenty years as fragile Maya communities struggled to survive in an increasingly hostile political and economic environment.”—James H. MacDonald, author of Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State