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title	:	Fieldwork Among the Maya : Reflections On the Harvard Chiapas Project
author	:	Vogt, Evon Zartman.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	082631502X
print isbn13	:	9780826315021
ebook isbn13	:	9780585202822
language	:	English
subject	Harvard Chiapas Project--History, Mayas--Antiquities, Vogt, Evon Zartman,--1918- , Archaeologists--Mexico--Chiapas Highlands--Biography, Archaeologists--United States--Biography, Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Chiapas Highlands--History, Tzotzil India
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	F1435.V732 1994eb
ddc	:	972/.75016
subject	:	Harvard Chiapas Project--History, Mayas--Antiquities, Vogt, Evon Zartman,--1918- , Archaeologists--Mexico--Chiapas Highlands--Biography, Archaeologists--United States--Biography, Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Chiapas Highlands--History, Tzotzil India

Page iii Fieldwork Among the Maya Reflections on the Harvard Chiapas Project Evon Z. Vogt UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque

Page iv 1994 by University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First Edition Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Vogt, Evon Zartman, 1918 Fieldwork among the Maya : reflections on the Harvard Chiapas Project / Evon Z. Vogt.Ist ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8263-1502-X i. Harvard Chiapas ProjectHistory. 2. MayasAntiquities. 3. Vogt, Evon Zartman, 1918- . 4. ArchaeologistsMexicoChiapas HighlandsBiography. 5. ArchaeologistsUnited StatesBiography. 6. Excavations (Archaeology)MexicoChiapas HighlandsHistory. 7. Tzotzil IndiansSocial life and customs. 8. Chiapas Highlands (Mexico)Antiquities. I. Title. FI435.V732 1994 93-27203 972'.750I6dc20 CIP Designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud

Page v To all who shared the Chiapas experience with me the stimulating students and colleagues, the loyal friends and family, and, above all, the gracious and patient Tzotzil-Mayas.

Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Southwestern Prelude: 1918-1953 1 2 The Origins of the Harvard Chiapas Project: 1954-1956 61 3 First Field Research in Chiapas: 1957 89 4 The Formative Years: 1958-1959 117 5 Fieldwork Sabbatical: Spring 1960 159 6 Undergraduates Join the Harvard Chiapas Project: 1960-1962 187 7 The Harvard Ranch: 1961-1981 215 8 Using Aerial Photography in Chiapas: 1964-1980 245 9 The "Early Classic" Years: 1963-1965 263 10 The "Late Classic" Years: 1966-1969 289 11 The "Post Classic" Years: 1970-1980 315 12 A Retrospective View of the Harvard Chiapas Project 345 13 Harvard Finale 367 Notes 367 References 391 Appendix I Project Fieldworkers: 1957-1980 431 Appendix 2 Field Leaders: 1957-1980 438 Appendix 3 Administrative/Research Assistants 439 Appendix 4 Ph.D. Dissertations 440 Appendix 5 Senior Honors Theses 441 Index 443

Page ix Preface Since the days that Malinowski spent some four years doing field research in the Trobriand Islands during World War I, there have probably been dozens of anthropologists whose total years devoted to fieldwork have exceeded that early record in the Southwest Pacific. I estimate that I have undertaken more than eight years of field research in the past fifty years. Yet in this age when books about fieldwork in anthropology are becoming fashionable and are being published at an astonishing rate, I have written little about field research per se. Indeed, the longest pieces I have published are "The Harvard Chiapas Project: 19571975" (Vogt 1979) and "Chapter I: Field Research in Zinacantan," which I added to the second edition of The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life (Vogt 1990). I decided some years ago it was high time I wrote about field research and I began work on such a book, focusing it on the Harvard Chiapas Project, which was initiated in 1957 and has been in operation for some thirtyfive years. The result is this personal chronicle of the project, which begins with my southwestern childhood and an account of how and why I became an anthropologist, describes the major features of the Harvard Chiapas Project, comments on changes in style and method of doing anthropology, and ends with my retirement dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston.

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