John P. Hawkins

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 co-directed the Anthropology Department Field School in Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán from 1995 through 2006 and in 2009.

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Army of Hope, Army of Alienation

Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany

University of Alabama Press

Seeks to penetrate the logic, social structure, and daily practice of life in American military communities in Germany

 

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala

Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization

Edited by John P. Hawkins
University of New Mexico Press

Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala

Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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